[ih] Significant milestones in the history of TCP/IP

["James P.G. Sterbenz 司徒傑莫 송재윤"]

On 15 Sep 2015, at 12:06, Dave Crocker <dhc2 at dcrocker.net> wrote:

> Howdy.
> 
> At a conference yesterday:
> 
>   http://youtu.be/_7rcAIbvzVY
> 
> I heard a presenter offer a rather creative interpretation of the
> history of IPv6, which deviated significantly from my own understanding
> of it.
> 
> It might be worth trying to document the actual major milestones.
> 
> In this case, I'm sure the errors were true errors, unlike the
> unfortunate recent shenanigans about the history of email, but I'm
> thinking that it would be reasonable to repeat the exercise we did for that:
> 
>     emailhistory.org
> 
> The idea would be to have community discussion and agreement about the
> major milestones.  Which milestones were seminal?  When did they occur?
> Is there documentation for it?  Maybe who the actors were.

This is an excellent idea, and I’m sure I wouldn’t be the only person for which it would be a useful reference for teaching networking courses.

> 
> I'd originally focused on IPv6, but a facebook thread on this produced a
> suggestion to broaden to all of IP (and I think that requires including
> TCP.)
> 
> If folk are interested, I'll set up tcpiphistory.net for this purpose.

Please do.  I’d hope that related major milestones in Cyclades and Davie’s NPL would be included.

Cheers,
James

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