[ih] 30th Anniversary of TCP/IP

Wed Jan 2 21:56:14 PST 2013

the planning for the cutover started at least in 1981 per Jon Postel's
cutover plan document.

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On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Elizabeth Feinler <feinler at earthlink.net>wrote:

> The cutover to TCP/IP was interesting.  Joe Haughney, DCA, had much
> earlier picked a cutover date out of a hat, so to speak, and chose Jan. 1,
> 1983.  Nobody thought about the fact that most of the work to make the
> cutover happen was going to be done at universities and most universities
> would be on vacation on Jan. 1st.  Also, the NIC started getting requests
> for Protocol Handbooks.  We had not published one for quite a while because
> no funding had been approved, and the few we had on hand were woefully out
> of date.  We refused to send out outdated information.  I frantically
> called Jon Postel at ISI, and between the NIC and Jon we kludged together
> an up-to-date version of the PH that no one but the two of us had approved.
> The NIC published it with SRI funds, as I was reluctant to publish anything
> on government funds that had not been vetted and approved (a procedure that
> would probably have taken months.)  Jon and I referred to this as the
> "plain brown wrapper version" of t!
>  he Protocol Handbook, although I think the covers were actually buff.
>
> Many of you remember Jon;s TCP/IP "bake-offs", the sharing of
> implementations for the many operating systems out there at the time, and
> the incredible back-and-forth exchange of information and detail among the
> many dedicated implementors.  I came in to SRI on cutover New Year's Eve,
> logged in, and panned around the net.  It was amazing how many programmers
> were back and online, determined to make the cutover to TCP/IP a success.
>  And as they say.....the rest is history.  It was an incredible
> technological event to observe and be a small part of.
>
> Who knew 30 years ago what the impact of that event would be!
>
> Hats off to all who made it happen.
>
> Jake
> On Jan 1, 2013, at 12:00 PM, internet-history-request at postel.org wrote:
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> >   1. Re: 30th Anniversary of Transition to TCP/IP (Bill Ricker)
> >   2. Re: 30th Anniversary of Transition to TCP/IP (Randy Bush)
> >   3. Re: 30th Anniversary of Transition to TCP/IP (Bill Ricker)
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> > Message: 1
> > Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2012 17:05:28 -0500
> > From: Bill Ricker <bill.n1vux at gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: [ih] 30th Anniversary of Transition to TCP/IP
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> > On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 2:27 PM, Noel Chiappa <jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu
> >wrote:
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> >>> From: IETF Chair <chair at ietf.org>
> >>> The ARPANET transitioned to TCP/IP on 1 January 1983. That was 30
> >> years
> >>> ago,
> >>
> >> It's very hard indeed to fully grasp that it's only been 30 years.
> >>
> >
> > Right. Then tonight i should open the one 1983 vintage scotch in Mike
> > Padlipsky's collection with which to toast this anniversary.
> >
> > [Glenhaven "Speyside" 1983/1996 sherry-wood]
> >
> > --
> > Bill
> > @n1vux bill.n1vux at gmail.com
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> > From: Randy Bush <randy at psg.com>
> > Subject: Re: [ih] 30th Anniversary of Transition to TCP/IP
> > To: Paul Vixie <paul at redbarn.org>
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> >> born in 1963, i felt throughout the 70's and 80's that i had been born
> >> too late, that all the fun stuff had been done already. now in the
> >> 10's i feel like we're just getting going and that i was probably born
> >> too soon, that all the fun stuff is coming 50 years from now.
> >
> > if you missed the '60s, indeed you were born too late.
> >
> > we watched the moon landing with our host's great grandmother who grew
> > up with gas lighting in her home.
> >
> > the pace accelerates.  technology advances more and more rapidly.
> > civilization?  not so much.
> >
> > randy
> >
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> > Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2012 17:29:32 -0500
> > From: Bill Ricker <bill.n1vux at gmail.com>
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> >>
> >> Right. Then tonight i should open the one 1983 vintage scotch in Mike
> >> Padlipsky's collection with which to toast this anniversary.
> >> [Glenhaven "Speyside" 1983/1996 sherry-wood]
> >>
> >
> > Argh. Typo in my data, it's a 1980/1996 16yo. If there's an actual 1982
> or
> > 1983 it's unnoted. So much for symbolism.
> >
> > So I'll toast the cut-over with something of MAP's before switching to
> Snow
> > Phoenix or Macallan Cask Str for dessert.
> >
> > --
> > Bill
> > @n1vux bill.n1vux at gmail.com
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