-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 And one of the lessons learned that night (as the person cutting over 0/6 (aka 10.0.0.6, MIT-MULTICS): Don't do cutovers like this on January 1st! -Jeff On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 11:35:21AM -0700, Bob Braden wrote: > > *> > *> There was a substantial discussion on the Internet-History mailing list > *> (internet-history@xxxxxxxxxx) of which date was the correct one for the > *> creation of TCPv4/IPv4, earlier this year (at the end of March, if anyone's > *> looking in the mailing-list archive). I don't know if we followed through > *> looking in the minutes of early Internet Working Group meetings to determine > *> exactly which one it was, but it seemed to have been at one in the fall of > *> '77. FWIW, IEN's 40 and 41 (the first publication of the TCPv4/IPv4 spec) > *> date from June of 1978. > *> > *> So we're pretty close to 30 years for TCPv4/IPv4 itself... > *> > *> Noel > *> > > I believe that the birth date for the Internet (protocols) was Jan 1, 1983, > when the ARPAnet cut over from NCP to TCP/IP. > > Bob Braden > > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > Ietf@xxxxxxxx > https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf > - -- ======================================================================== Jeffrey I. Schiller MIT Network Manager Information Services and Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue Room W92-190 Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 617.253.0161 - Voice jis@xxxxxxx ======================================================================== -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFGXV88CBzV/QUlSsRAvyfAKC9SzoYPmZwjsl65W1I3kq5Dj3C0ACfTzHT QPZzqDIeYzdMqcKF39dP8Sg= =n1aJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf