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

["James P.G. Sterbenz 司徒傑莫 송재윤"]

On 16 Sep 2015, at 07:18, 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.)

Congestion control?

James

> I know we have a number of early ARPANet people here - perhaps one of them
> has some insight here?
> 
> 	Noel
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