[ih] capacity v bandwidth
Noel Chiappa
jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Tue Jun 2 10:28:28 PDT 2026
> From: Barbara Denny
> I doubt it was discussed in a hallway. To me the early meetings were
> more like a DARPA meeting ... Everyone was in one room as far as I knew.
> The number of people attending was not that high.
IETF meetings very quickly became fairly sizeable. From the meeting list I
linked to earlier:
1st IETF 21 Attendees January, 1986; San Diego
2nd IETF 21 Attendees April, 1986; Aberdeen
3rd IETF 18 Attendees July, 1986; Ann Arbor
4th IETF 35 Attendees October, 1986; Menlo Park
5th IETF 35 Attendees February, 1987; Moffett Field
6th IETF 88 Attendees April, 1987; Boston
7th IETF 101 Attendees July, 1987; McLean
8th IETF 56 Attendees November, 1987; Boulder
9th IETF 82 Attendees March, 1988; San Diego
10th IETF 112 Attendees June, 1988; Annapolis
11th IETF 114 Attendees October, 1988; Ann Arbor
12th IETF 120 Attendees January, 1989; Austin
13th IETF 114 Attendees April, 1989; Cocoa Beach
With the timeframe that Brian deduced for the gateway/router change - between
June 1988 and June 1989 - the initial growth had pretty clearly taken off.
(The 7th, in McLean, was almost certainly the one where I remember Phill, Dan
Lynch and I sitting in a bar at the end of the day chanting 'It's time to get
real'; no doubt it being the first one with more than 100 attendees
contributedto that thinking.)
Noel
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