[ih] Installed base momentum (was Re: Design choices in SMTP)

[Craig Partridge]

On Tue, Feb 14, 2023 at 6:00 AM John Day via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

>
>
> Craig, earlier you said this:
> > Nicely, the most prominent and
> > complementary papers on congestion issues, one by Van Jacobson (TCP/IP)
> and
> > one by Raj Jain and KK Ramakrishnan (DECNET),
> > were presented back-to-back at the ACM SIGCOMM conference in 1988.  So if
> > you were looking to build (or soon after via NSFNET, connect
> > to) a sturdy wide-area network, unless you were a DEC VMS organization,
> > your best choice was TCP/IP.
>
> Were you implying that Jain’s work was unique to DECNET?  I have read both
> work carefully and I didn’t see anything in Jain’s report that was unique
> to DECNET.  And I have to say that the 4 parts of report of Jain’s team is
> some of the finest computer science research I have ever seen. I wish we
> saw more of it.
>

Hi John:

I think we're in agreement but to make sure.  I was not suggesting that
Jain & Ramakrishnan's work was unique to DECNET but rather that it was
nurtured in DECNET.  More generally, the research networking team at DEC in
the late 1980s was a truly amazing group of people who did a lot of
fundamental work that is applicable today.

Craig

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