[ih] Exterior Gateway Protocol

Stephen Casner casner at acm.org
Wed Sep 2 14:10:20 PDT 2020


On Wed, 2 Sep 2020, Jack Haverty via Internet-history wrote:

> So, research collided with operations.  Dave Mills, for example, was
> famous for trying things out on the Internet that should have worked,
> but didn't, and brought down some aspect of the core service.  His
> (research) attitude was "Let's see what happens if I do this", where our
> BBN (operational) attitude was "Don't do that!".

Same with opening up subtype 3 uncontrolled packets on the ARPANET for
our packet voice work earlier -- also Bob's push.

                                                        -- Steve



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