[ih] Separation of TCP and IP

[Scott Bradner]

a good source is the Cohen/Casner lecture that they gave at Google in August 2010

A Brief Prehistory of Voice over IP parts 1 & 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=av4KF1j-wp4

I have a copy of the slides (44 MB) - let me know if you would like a copy

Scott

> On Jun 23, 2022, at 3:15 AM, Noel Chiappa via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> 
> I'm interested in finding out more about the process by which TCP and IP were
> separated: to begin with, how it came to be recognized that this separation
> was a good thing. (This split was what enabled the later creation of UDP, of
> course.) In particular, that the basic service model (of what later became
> the internet layer) should be directly usable by applications, and that the
> complete data network be accessible not _just_ only via TCP. I am also
> interested in who drove this change (if any players in particular stand out).
> 
> I have poked around a bit in the early IEN's, but I didn't find much on this
> specific area - either why, or who. From comments in IEN-22 "Internet Meeting
> Notes - 1 February 1978" (in "Introduction and Objectives) it sounds like the
> formal decision to do the split was made at the TCP meeting the day before.
> The minutes from that meeting, IEN-67 "TCP Meeting Notes - 30 & 31 January
> 1978", don't provide much, though. IEN-66 "TCP Meeting Notes - 13 & 14
> October 1977" shows that there had been a drift in this direction for a
> while; it didn't seem to be present as of IEN-3, "Internet Meeting Notes - 15
> August 1977", though.
> 
> I arrived on the scene shortly after this happened (my first meeting was the
> August 1978 one), but I retain some impressions (gained no doubt from
> discussions with people like Clark and Reed). These are the impressions that
> I retain: that Danny was _a_ significant force in making this happen, because
> of his voice work - for which timeliness was important, not correctness. (In
> IEN-67, "Arrangements - Cohen" Danny "complain[ed] about TCP-3 becoming all
> things to all people".) Is that correct? (If so, it's probably his most
> significant technical legacy.) For others, I think Dave Reed may have been in
> favour too (perhaps he'd already started to think of RPC-like things). And
> perhaps some of the other voice people - e.g. Forgie? And I'm sure the PARC
> guys were trying to throw a few clues our way. Am I missing anyone? Did
> anyone stand out as being a bigger influence than the rest?
> 
> Maybe there's some significan paper that discusses the architectural benefit
> of making the basic unreliable data carriage substrate accessible to _some_
> applications, but the concept didn't seem to get much coverage in the IENs.
> Maybe it was so obviously the Right Thing that not much discussion was
> needed, and the only question was when/how to do it?
> 
> 	Noel
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