[ih] ARPANET pioneer Jack Haverty says the internet was never finished

[Jack Haverty]

Yeah, that was me.   But the article's writer got some of the details 
wrong.   IIRC, I didn't "develop FTP"; not sure where that came from.  I 
think that Abhay Bhushan wrote RFC114, documenting FTP but I don't think 
even he'd claim to have invented it.   It was a team effort of lots of 
ARPANET denizens of the day.  Abhay's office was just a few doors away 
from mine, and I do remember annoying him persistently until he agreed 
to add some features we needed in order to implement email (MLFL, IIRC).

Re the Long List -- I still have my notebooks from ICCB meetings where 
that list was kept on the whiteboard-du-jour.  At one meeting I copied 
the list into my notebook.  I'll see if I can find it and report back.   
One that I used in the talk was TOS, i.e., how should routers (and TCPs) 
treat datagrams differently depending on their TOS values.   There were 
8 or so others on the list too.

Jack Haverty


On 3/1/22 19:27, the keyboard of geoff goodfellow via Internet-history 
wrote:
> vis-a-vis "We Were Not Done Yet (starting at ~1 hr, min 7)
> &
> "We Still Had Long List of Things That Had To Be Figured Out Someday
> and the technology kind of got out of our hands and
> went out into the user's environment before it was read to go"
> +
> "It Should All Just Work But The Reality Is It Still Doesn't There's A Long
> List of Things That Have To Get Done" (start at ~1 hr, 12 mins)
>
> curious if anyone has a copy or memory of what
> the Long List of Things That Had To Be Figured Out Someday?
> /
> There's A Long List of Things That Have To Get Done?
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 1, 2022 at 4:18 PM Brian E Carpenter via Internet-history <
> internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
>
>> https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/01/the_internet_is_so_hard/
>>
>> (start watching the video at 46 minutes in)
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