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

[Vint Cerf]

some key TCP players were part of the packet radio program (jim mathis,
vint cerf, ....)
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On Wed, Apr 16, 2025 at 7:49 PM Greg Skinner via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> 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
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