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

[Jack Haverty]

On 1/24/25 14:57, vinton cerf wrote:
>
>     - When TCPV2 was evolving into TCP/IPV4, two separate groups were
>     formed: the "TCP Working Group" and the "Internet Working Group".
>     These
>     met and interacted separately.
>
> This must have been after I got to ARPA because I don't recall such a 
> grouping.

There were separate meetings for TCP and Internet during around 
1978-79.   IIRC that's when there were two separate (but overlapping) 
sets of people.  One was supposed to refine TCP, and the other to 
finalize IP.   Those two groups may not have had separate names, but the 
notes from the meetings had different titles.   Noel's website captures 
that some meetings were "TCP Meetings" and others were "Internet 
Meetings".   After 1979 I think they were all Internet Meetings.   Of 
course there was much more constant interaction by email.

I migrated from Lick's group at MIT to Heart's group at BBN somewhere 
around Fall 1977 and my first assignment was to get TCP implemented on 
PDP-11 Unix.  That was interesting because I had never before worked on 
or even used Unix, hadn't implemented any networking software below the 
level of mail servers, had never heard of TCP, and had never seen a 
PDP-11.   So I was perfect for the task....?

Jack

 From Noel's website:
EN's (in IEN number order):

  * INTERNET Meeting Notes 15 August 1977
    <https://www.rfc-editor.org/ien/ien3.txt> (IEN 3)
  * Meeting Notes - 1 February 1978
    <https://www.rfc-editor.org/ien/ien22.pdf> (IEN-22)
  * Meeting Notes - 2,3&4 August 1978
    <https://www.rfc-editor.org/ien/ien53.pdf> (IEN-53)
  * Boston Area Meeting of the Internet Working Group to Discuss
    Interactions With Gateways
    <https://www.rfc-editor.org/ien/ien60.pdf> (IEN-60)
  * Internet Meeting Notes - 30 & 31 October 1978
    <https://www.rfc-editor.org/ien/ien63.pdf> (IEN-63)
  * Minutes of TCP Meeting, March 12, 1977, Washington, D.C.
    <https://www.rfc-editor.org/ien/ien64.pdf> (IEN-64)
  * TCP Meeting Notes - 14 & 15 July 1977
    <https://www.rfc-editor.org/ien/ien65.pdf> (IEN-65)
  * TCP Meeting Notes - 13 & 14 October 1977
    <https://www.rfc-editor.org/ien/ien66.pdf> (IEN-66
  * TCP Meeting Notes 30 & 31 January 1978
    <https://www.rfc-editor.org/ien/ien67.pdf> (IEN-67)
  * TCP Meeting Notes - 15 & 16 June 1978
    <https://www.rfc-editor.org/ien/ien68.pdf> (IEN-68)
  * TCP Meeting Notes - 18 & 19 September 1978
    <https://www.rfc-editor.org/ien/ien69.pdf> (IEN 69)
  * Internet Meeting Notes - 4 December 1978
    <https://www.rfc-editor.org/ien/scanned/ien70.pdf> (IEN-70)
  * TCP Meeting Notes - 29 January 1979
    <https://www.rfc-editor.org/ien/ien77.pdf> (IEN-77)
  * Minutes of the Fault Isolation Meeting
    <https://www.rfc-editor.org/ien/ien104.txt> (IEN-104)
  * Internet Meeting Notes - 8, 9, 10 & 11 May 1979
    <https://www.rfc-editor.org/ien/ien106.pdf> (IEN-106)
  * Internet Meeting Notes - 10, 11, 12 & 13 September 1979
    <https://www.rfc-editor.org/ien/ien121.txt> (IEN-121)
  * Internet Meeting Notes - 4, 5, & 6 February 1980
    <https://www.rfc-editor.org/ien/ien134.txt> (IEN-134)
  * Internet Meeting Notes - 14 & 15 May 1980
    <https://www.rfc-editor.org/ien/ien145.txt> (IEN-145)
  * Internet Meeting Notes -- 7-8-9 October 1980
    <https://www.rfc-editor.org/ien/ien160.txt> (IEN-160)
  * Internet Meeting Notes -- 28-29-30 January 1981
    <https://www.rfc-editor.org/ien/ien175.txt> (IEN-175)

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