[ih] capacity v bandwidth

[vinton cerf]

There was also an ICB, as I recall chaired by Peter Kirstein and set up by
Bob Kahn. ICB was International Cooperation (or Coordination?) Board - UK,
Germany, Italy, US (possibly Norway?) were represented, I think.

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On Tue, Jun 2, 2026 at 11:53 AM D Waitzman via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> Regarding the history subtopic:
>
> https://www.iab.org/about/history/
> has:
> > The origin of today’s IAB lies in the Internet Configuration Control
> Board (ICCB), which was created in 1979 by Vint Cerf, at that time program
> manager at DARPA, to advise him on technical issues. The ICCB was chaired
> by David Clark, MIT.
> >
> > In September 1984, after the ICCB meeting held at RSRE in Malvern, UK,
> the ICCB was disbanded and replaced by the Internet Advisory Board (IAB).
> This change was initiated by Dave Clark and Barry Leiner, who had taken
> over management of the Internet research program at DARPA. The IAB
> consisted of the chairs of the newly-formed research task forces and Jon
> Postel (ISI), as RFC editor and “protocol czar”. The first set of chairs of
> the task forces were the members of the ICCB. The IAB was chaired by Dave
> Clark.
>
>
> I thought it was called the ICB, not ICCB.  I attended a meeting in The
> Hague at NATO's STC around 1991.  MAJ (or COL by then?) Pullen was funding
> us.
>
> Noel Chiappa wrote:
> > There's a reason that, for professional historians, contemporaneous
> written records are the 'gold standard'. All other sources - especially
> human memory - are very inferior.
>
>
> Circa 1989 on a Friday afternoon, Steve Storch asked me to fly to
> California for a Monday ICB or IETF Host Requirements meeting to take notes.
> Fortunately, BBN had a capable onsite travel agent in our building (10
> Moulton) who quickly booked me tickets (pre-web this was a big deal).
> I emailed out the next on Tuesday to Bob Braden, who emailed them out to
> the team with a subject line like "Shazam!" since the notes usually took
> longer to be written up and distributed.
> (I was amused by the cost of a note taker for that contract.)
>
> Those certainly meet Noel's gold standard, but I cannot find that email.
>
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