[ih] Telnet paper by email

[Vint Cerf]

..even though their system was NOT on the ARPANET...

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On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 6:46 AM Dave Crocker <dhc at dcrocker.net> wrote:

> On 5/28/2019 1:29 AM, David Walden wrote:
> > It was for the Fifth ACM/IEEE Symposium on Operating System Principles,
> September 1977.
>
>
> Might be worth mentioning that the popular email spec, RFC 733, was
> primarily developed via email.  The 4 of us worked at 4 different
> institutions, around the country.  We met once or twice, as I recall,
> but the bulk of the collaboration was via email.  This was also 1977.
> And I think that by then this sort of email-mediated collaboration had
> become pretty common, for those with access to Arpanet mail.
>
> (My phrasing of that is because email relaying meant that some people
> could interact with Arpanet mail users even though their system was
> directly attached to the Arpanet: "To Be 'On' the Internet", RFC 1775.)
>
> d/
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