[ih] TCP

[Brian E Carpenter]

On 06-May-24 09:59, Clark Gaylord via Internet-history wrote:
> Of course we all know the *real* value of that paper: it's the only picture
> of Vint sans vest 😁

By which, I think, you must mean a waistcoat. But surely you are overlooking
the cover of the August 1996 issue of Boardwatch Magazine?

(https://archive.org/details/Boardwatch_10.8_AUG_1996)

Thanks for the reminder, Patrik.

    Brian

> 
> On Sun, May 5, 2024, 05:59 Patrik Fältström via Internet-history <
> internet-history at elists.isoc.org> 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
>>
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