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

[Miles Fidelman]

Re.

Alex McKenzie wrote:
>
> 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.

One might point out three things:
- Both Cerf and Kahn served as ARPANET Program Manager
- the NCP to TCP/IP cutover was perhaps the most significant date in 
TCP/IP history (except maybe for publication of the "A Protocol for 
Packet Network Intercommunication" 10 years earlier)
- ARPANET split in half to create the MILNET (DDN) - made possible by 
IP, and arguably when the we began to have a real IP based Internet as a 
growing network-of-networks tied together by IP (before that TCP/IP was 
more experimental than operational, as I recall)

Miles Fidelman
BBN '85-'92 - worked on the early DDN, too late for the ARPANET, which 
was being whittled down when I got there



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