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

[Vint Cerf]

so there were a few groups. NWG was Steve's creation and was the nexus in
which NCP, FTP, SMTP, TELNET and other Arpanet-based protocols were
developed. In 1972, an International Network Working Group (INWG) was
created and had its own set of notes called INWG Notes - these have all
been digitized thanks to Alex McKenzie (ex-BBN). Many of the same people
who worked on the Arpanet protocols also worked on the Internet Protocols
and the leads formed the Internet Configuration Control Board (ICCB) before
it was renamed the Internet Advisory Board by Barry Leiner and then
Internet Activities Board and then, with the merge with ISOC, the Internet
Architecture Board. The IETF and IRTF grew out of working groups (ten of
them more or less) of the IAB, the largest of which was IETF.

v


On Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 9:19 AM Steve Crocker via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> It had to be there because I said so :). See RFC 3.
>
> Steve
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > 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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