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

[Steve Crocker]

It had to be there because I said so :). See RFC 3.

Steve

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> On Jan 24, 2025, at 9:08 AM, Guy Almes via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> 
> 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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