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

[Barbara Denny]

 I also think Charlie Lynn (BBN) was working on one of the tcp implementations in the early 80s, if not before then.  He attended the BBN weekly packet radio meetings so he was aware of packet radio.
barbara
    On Wednesday, April 16, 2025 at 05:08:10 PM PDT, Vint Cerf via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:  
 
 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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