[ih] Overlay networks (1980s SRI Reconstitution Protocol)

John Gilmore gnu at toad.com
Thu Aug 21 12:32:25 PDT 2025


Barbara, thank you for reminding us of the Network Reconstitution Protocol.

Here are two copies of their final report:

  https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA184755.pdf
  https://archive.org/details/ADA184755/

They appear to come from the same (microfiche) source.

Also here's a brief note by Greg Skinner about this work and report:

  https://gregbo.medium.com/network-reconstitution-protocol-79bc61067f8e

	John

PS: Due to Greg Skinner's comment at the bottom of this Computer History
Museum story, I ran across this today, from back when the Internet
itself was barely an overlay network:

  "Born in a Van: Happy 40th Birthday to the Internet!
  40th Anniversary of the First Major TCP Internetwork Demonstration, November 22, 1977"
  by Marc Weber
  Nov 22, 2017
  https://medium.com/chmcore/born-in-a-van-happy-40th-birthday-to-the-internet-d81287f172bf


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