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

[Greg Skinner]

On Jan 28, 2025, at 9:13 AM, Noel Chiappa via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> 
> Note to future historians: there may be some detail errors in that message
> (well, it does say "IIRC"), so cross-check. E.g. "The IETF was formed to
> Engineer the operational Internet as it grew. The IRTF was formed to pursue
> the Research" - There was an 'InArc' formed at the same time as the IETF:
> 
>  https://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/database/papers/inarc.pdf
> 
> but it never went anywhere. I think the IRTF was created later - I'm not sure
> exactly when, perhaps around the time of RFC 2014? (I have this vague memory
> of the IETF and InArc being initially announced at the same West Coast
> meeting, around the time of IETF 1.) Maybe the IRTF was created to do what
> Inarc should have done?
> 

The INARC announcement is in the IETF 1 (San Diego) proceedings.

https://www.ietf.org/proceedings/01.pdf

--gregbo