[ih] IEN's as txt

Stephen Casner casner at acm.org
Thu Feb 9 22:09:35 PST 2017


On Thu, 9 Feb 2017, Jack Haverty wrote:

> TCP isn't the best choice for voice.  Various ARPA projects (e.g., Steve
> Casner's work at ISI) wanted to experiment with voice coding and
> protocols, but it wouldn't work well over TCP.
>
> That was one motivation for the splitting apart of TCP and IP; it
> permitted UDP to ride on top of IP in parallel with TCP.

Credit Danny Cohen for that push, sparked by Bob Kahn's support of the
packet voice idea.

                                                        -- Steve



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