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

[John Day]

Correct. Forgot about that and don’t forget the control link!!

Believe it or not, a US Defense Contractor (CSC) creating a copy of the ARPANET thought it would be too much trouble to open a connection to send mail and was going to send it on the Control Link. (!!) A friend at MITRE made them at least change the title of the document to “Non-functional Specification . . .”  ;-) lol   (Not surprising, the copy was 7 times slower.) lol

Ahh, those were the days!

John

> On Jan 25, 2025, at 10:42, Lars Brinkhoff <lars at nocrew.org> wrote:
> 
> John Day wrote:
>> Then NCP operated process-to-process over that. NCP carried socket
>> ids, not host ids.
> 
> And links.
> 
> RFC (STR or RTS) and CLS messages identify a connection by the remote
> and local socket numbers.  Data messages and flow control identify the
> connection by the link number set up during RFC.  (I recently wrote a
> new NCP to test an emulated ARPANET.)