At 09:01 PM 1/15/2003 -0500, Craig Partridge wrote:
In message <5.1.0.14.2.20030114215708.0475ef68@pop.mindspring.com>, Michael StJCraig - I don't think that any of the meetings were explicitly closed, but definitely not well advertised. If I were to pick a date where the expansion started, I'd probably pick meeting 6 at BBN where we had a co meeting with one of the ... ANSI subgroups? X3S3? (I forget the incantation). I think at meeting 3 we explicitly started looking at the operations of the Internet - we had all 4 of the major players there (DOD, NASA, DOE and NSF) and that broadened it past the purely research bent of GADS.
ohns writes:
>We spent about 1/2 of the 2nd day on engineering issues and I would really
>call that specific day the first IETF meeting. According to the IETF
>website, that was January 17th, 1986 - so we've got a few years yet until
>the 20th anniversary.
Mike:
Do you remember how many of the 1986 meetings were closed?
I first attended the Moffett Field meeting (which was periodically
interrupted by U-2s taking off) in Feburary 1987. My recollection is that
it was the 2nd meeting open to all attendees, but I'm not sure.
Craig
Later, Mike