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

[Vint Cerf]

actually their experience with a one-node local area network influenced
Roberts' choice of data rate. Roger Scantlebury attended the 1967 meeting
at which he met Larry and said that higher speed would reduce delay. Larry
ended up with 50 Kb/s lines rather slower 2.4 kb/s lines. Roger and Donald
and others were very active in INWG, EIN as well.

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On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 8:18 AM, Noel Chiappa <jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
wrote:

>     > From: James P. Sterbenz
>
>     > I'd hope that related major milestones in Cyclades and Davie[s'] NPL
>     > would be included.
>
> So I'm curious, why Davies' stuff? Other than the name of packet switching
> (not to belittle the importance of that, sometimes a good name is worth a
> great deal indeed), what major technical influence did his work have?
>
> (This is not snark, but a genuine question - I'm pretty familiar with the
> literature, but I don't know of any - or, at least, I've never seen
> anything
> which examines this particular point, and provides an answer.)
>
> I know we have a number of early ARPANet people here - perhaps one of them
> has some insight here?
>
>         Noel
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