[ih] Correct name for early TCP/IP working group?

Guy Almes galmes at tamu.edu
Fri Jan 24 06:08:14 PST 2025


Hi Noel,
   You were there long before I was, but I recall that, in the upper 
left corner of RFCs and Internet Drafts, we were always to put down 
"Network Working Group".
   Even though we were organized into an IETF with Working Groups, etc., 
that old name had to be there for some reason.
	-- Guy

On 1/24/25 8:52 AM, Noel Chiappa via Internet-history wrote:
> So, what was the correct full name for the early engineering group that met
> every couple of months to work on TCP/IP, before the IETF was set up? (I have
> looked for it in Jon Postel's excellent minutes of its meetings, preserved in
> the Internet Experiment Note series, but I havn't found it there.)
> 
> I have this memory that we called it the 'Internet Working Group', but of
> course (especially in shortened form) that could be confused with the INWG
> (the 'International Network Working Group'), a different early group entirly.
> 
> 	Noel
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