[ih] ARPANET history

[Jack Haverty]

FYI, I stumbled across a government report written in 1990 but that I 
hadn't seen before now.   It contains a summary of the creation and 
evolution of the ARPANET and the beginnings of the Internet. Where it 
talks about things that I personally experienced, it agrees with my 
recollections.   So I tend to trust the other things it says that are 
new to me even today.  I thought that internet-historians might be 
interested too.

The report is non-technical, but highlights some of the reasons for the 
success of the project, leading to the Internet we have today, such as 
the way in which people moved around between organizations, political 
and managerial decisions within parts of the government, activities for 
moving the technology from research to operations, and other such 
non-technical drivers of the success of the Internet.

See https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA239925.pdf    -- Chapter XX (page 243)

/Jack Haverty