[ih] Peter Salus / Baran's work

[Miles Fidelman]

Bill Ricker wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 10:46 AM, John Day <jeanjour at comcast.net 
> <mailto:jeanjour at comcast.net>> wrote:
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>     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 .)

That's simply wrong.  Adaptive routing was at the heart of the BBN 
switches, from day 1.

>
> 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 !
>

Again, simply wrong.  The push for OSI came from GSA, and DoD fought 
long and hard to make sure that every single RFP that came out allowed 
for side-by-side use of the DoD protocol suite.  I seem to recall a few 
systems that had dual stacks.  I don't think I ever saw any of the OSI 
stuff actually used (or even functional).  [The exceptions being some 
X.400 email, X.500 directory services and X.509 crypto certs.]

Miles Fidelman

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