[ih] CORRECTION: Not IEN's, but Packet Radio Notes

[Greg Skinner]

On Apr 16, 2025, at 9:33 AM, Alexander McKenzie via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> 
> Friends,
> 
> I must apologize for a serious misstatement.  I now realize it was not
> IEN's which were strictly controlled, it was Packet Radio Notes.  I myself
> was on the public distribution list for IENs and I should have remembered
> this.
> 
> My sincere apologies,
> Alex McKenzie
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OK, I understand (although some of those Packet Radio Notes are also IENs).  But IMO some of the Packet Radio Notes (such as those that are in https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA157696.pdf) that are not IENs could have been valuable to TCP implementors who were not part of the initial group of TCP implementors from the late 1970s and early 1980s.  At the very least, they give an idea of how one might go about designing or tuning a TCP implementation, or testing for interoperability (including performance).

--gregbo