[ih] Telnet paper by email

[David Walden]

Wayne,
This is probably the paper of which you are thinking.
   http://walden-family.com/public/telnet-overview.pdf
It was for the Fifth ACM/IEEE Symposium on Operating System Principles, September 1977.
It was reprinted in a couple of other places:  Partridge's compendium on networking innovations and the McQuillan/Cerf volume on network protocols.
Along with Bob Thomas, I organized the multi author writing effort, edited content together and sent drafts out for the other authors to review, and probably presented the paper.
Dave

On May 27, 2019, at 11:28 PM, Wayne Hathaway <wayne at playaholic.com> wrote:

All this discussion of email history has triggered what I hope isn't just a false memory.
I was peripherally involved with early ARPA protocol designs, and remember co-authoring
a paper for SIGOPS on something like "Telnet, Its Influence on Operating System Design."
I particularly remember that I and the other four or five co-authors created the entire
paper using email; we never even had a telephone call, much less a meeting.  Anyway, I
also remember a paper delivered at that same conference that discussed email, and this
sticks in my mind particularly because there was an in-depth example of email headers on
one slide, showing To: and From: and the like.  I remember this because the particular
example chosen had the line "To: wayne at ames-67."  Hey, I thought -- that's me! :-)

Anyway, does anybody else have a similar memory?  As I recall, we sort of shoe-horned
the paper on Telnet in by using that "influence on operating system design" line.  I have
no idea how an email paper would have been shoehorned into a SIGOPS Conference, but
who knows.  Oh, I wasn't the author who presented the paper, either, so I don't even recall
where the conference was held.

Anybody?


Wayne Hathaway
wayne at playaholic.con   [formerly wayne at ames-67  :-)]

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