[ih] Separation of TCP and IP

[John Levine]

It appears that Jack Haverty via Internet-history <jack at 3kitty.org> said:
>But I think the motivation for the TCP/IP split started much earlier 
>than when it actually happened.  E.g., I have a faded copy of 
>"Comparison of TCP and DSP" by Dave Clark (MIT Local Network Note #7, 
>April 28, 1977).  ...

I've never understood what the motivation for splitting TCP and IP was,
not that there wasn't one, but there were so many.

It allows UDP for latency critical stuff. Was there per-flow state in
the routers before the split or was allowing stateless routers another
benefit? Other things?

R's,
John