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

[John Day]

Agreed

> On Feb 14, 2023, at 09:56, Craig Partridge <craig at tereschau.net> wrote:
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> On Tue, Feb 14, 2023 at 6:00 AM John Day via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org <mailto:internet-history at elists.isoc.org>> wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Hi John:
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> 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.
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> Craig
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