[ih] A revolution in Internet point-of-view - Was Re: Internet analyses (Was Re: IPv8...)

[Dave Crocker]

On 4/30/2026 4:55 PM, vinton cerf wrote:
> To add to Dave's story


Since MCI Mail wound up being relevant to Internet history, when Vint 
used MMDF to interconnect with Internet mail, I'll add to his addition.

MCI Mail was built using a collection of vendors for different parts of 
the system. (HP had the remote laster printers.)

Six months before the scheduled public demo was the first meeting, with 
all the vendors in the same room.

Vint got up to greet everyone and set the stage.  He said we did not 
have much time but we were going to meet the September deadline.  Then 
he said that if anything stopped us -- not that it would, but if it did 
-- it would be a connector.

As I recall, that middle-of-the-night-before-the-demo problem that Vint 
described turned out to be a connector.

d/

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