[ih] TCP

[Karl Auerbach]

By-the-way, there is an event on May 19:

https://engage.ieee.org/celebrate-i50

I would add, however, that the Internet is more than just TCP/IP.

I tend to think of TCP/IP as the super-glue that allowed several diverse 
energies to come together.

We had the need of research and academic communities to share 
information and resources, we had growing communities of USENET and BBS 
people who had become familiar with network based communications, we had 
government $$ from agencies desirous of making networks happen, we had 
passed through a legal evolution in which the telco monopolies had been 
eroded and their utility services pried open (i.e. via HushAPhone, 
Carterphone, MCI cases), and computers that could be nodes on networks 
became smaller and more ubiquitous (first with mini-computers then with 
personal computers.)

In other words, we had a supersaturated solution of need and desire - 
TCP was the invention that triggered the precipitation of the Internet.

	--karl--

On 5/5/24 2:59 AM, Patrik Fältström via Internet-history wrote:
> 50 years ago today Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn published their paper on packet switching which is the basis for the Internet we use today.
> 
> They did come up with TCP: "Within a HOST we assume that existence of a transmission control program (TCP) which handles the transmission and acceptance of messages on behalf of the processes it serves."
> 
> It was published in IEEE Transactions on Communications ( Volume: 22, Issue: 5, May 1974): https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1092259
> 
>> A protocol that supports the sharing of resources that exist in different packet switching networks is presented. The protocol provides for variation in individual network packet sizes, transmission failures, sequencing, flow control, end-to-end error checking, and the creation and destruction of logical process-to-process connections. Some implementation issues are considered, and problems such as internetwork routing, accounting, and timeouts are exposed.
> 
> https://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/fall06/cos561/papers/cerf74.pdf
> 
> I think this is the right moment to just say “and the rest is history”.
> 
> Thanks Vint and Bob!
> 
> Patrik
>