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

[Vint Cerf]

INWG was formed in October 1972 at the ICCC meeting.

By summer 1973 INWG #39 outlined ideas that eventually were refined and
published in May 1974 (cerf/kahn article in IEEE Transactions on
Communications)

The first full TCP spec is RFC675 December 1974

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On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 12:39 PM, Dave Crocker <dhc2 at dcrocker.net> wrote:

> On 9/16/2015 6:12 AM, 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.
>
>
> the history of Internet technologies is best viewed as a continuum, IMO.
>
> that said, for the current exercise, i'm interested in limiting the
> scope to the history of major tcp/ip milestones.
>
> by way of marking a starting point for discussion, the anecdotal summary
> i heard a long time ago was that first discussions on internetworking
> were held during the arpanet public demonstration, at the first iccc in
> 1972.
>
> i'm not inclined to count that as a 'milestone' but would think that
> circulation of the first tcp design would count as the beginning marker
> for this timeline.
>
> but that's just my own perspective, and as i said, this is intended to
> be a community (rough consensus) effort.
>
> d/
>
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