[ih] Peter Salus / Baran's work

[John Day]

ARPANET had adaptive routing from the start. 

This question is more about what people were doing and thinking in the 1969-1971 time frame, not events almost 10 years or more later.

John
> On Jan 13, 2015, at 13:21, Bill Ricker <bill.n1vux at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 10:46 AM, John Day <jeanjour at comcast.net <mailto:jeanjour at comcast.net>> wrote:
> I think the nuclear war meme is really more tightly associated with the Internet than the ARPANET. 
> 
> ​Hmm, that makes sense. 
> (D)ARPAnet initially had fixed routing, not useful in damage-prone environment.
> It was ​TCP/IP that introduced adaptive routing around damage. 
> (USEnet evolved adaptive routing, i don't recall how that was related .)
> 
> Also note that the Military nearly adopted the ISO OSI protocol stack not the TCP/IP Internet stack, even though DARPA had subsidized the (pre-Web/NSF/NSCC) development ! 
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> Bill Ricker
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