[ih] Gateway Issue: Certification (was Re: booting linux on a 4004)

Karl Auerbach karl at iwl.com
Thu Oct 3 14:59:38 PDT 2024


On 10/3/24 10:43 AM, Jack Haverty via Internet-history wrote:

> Around the time that TCP/IP became a DoD Standard in the 1980s, 
> NIST/NBS also created a Certification methodology.   DoD altered its 
> procurement regulations to require such Certifications for everything 
> it purchased.  I've never learned who specifically made either of 
> those things happen.  But someone did.

My memory is vague on this, but I believe that some DoD formal documents 
were done by Dave Kaufman (SDC) and Carl Sunshine.  But I could be 
completely wrong about this.

     --karl--





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