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

[Craig Partridge]

On Wed, Jan 29, 2025 at 12:41 AM Jack Haverty via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> For example, NBS (now NIST) created a program for testing new TCP
> implementations to make sure they followed the spec.   At BBN, in
> preparation for the later DDN activity, we set up a service which would
> run the NBS tests for clients (using a dialup link), and then help them
> as consultants to fix whatever wasn't working.   There was lots of work
> to convert older programs like Telnet, FTP, and mail to use TCP instead
> of NCP, and to get ancillary, but important, technologies such as SNMP
> and ICMP widely implemented.
>
>
Small nit.  SNMP didn't exist until 1988.  The Internet did not have a
standard management protocol until then.

What you're probably thinking of is HMP (the Host Monitoring Protocol),
which despite its name, was actually used to monitor the health of
routers.  It was developed c. 1981 (IEN 197) and was supported on the BBN
routers and mailbridges in the 1980s.

Craig


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