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

[Alex McKenzie]

Noel,
Davies team told Larry Roberts about Paul Baran's work, which Larry was unaware of.  At a later time Davies team (Roger Scantlebury) also convinced Larry to build the ARPAnet with a small number of "high speed" (50kbps) lines rather than a large number of "low speed" (9.6 & 19.2 kbps) lines.  I think both of these events had major effects on the specification of ARPAnet and led to its success.

Whether anything about the ARPAnet had much to do with the history of TCP/IP is a different question, but if people think the answer to that question is "yes" then probably both Baran and Davies also belong in the story.
Cheers
      From: Noel Chiappa <jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
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 Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2015 8:18 AM
 Subject: Re: [ih] Significant milestones in the history of TCP/IP
   
    > 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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