Re: Remote participants, newcomers, and tutorials (was: IETF87 Audio Streaming Info)

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Well, actually, the IETF is a continuation of the Network Working Group, which formed organically in late 1968.  We're a few days short of the 45 year mark.  The NWG had open meetings, developed the layered architecture and published RFCs.

Steve

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On Jul 27, 2013, at 9:07 AM, jnc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Noel Chiappa) wrote:

>> From: Abdussalam Baryun <abdussalambaryun@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
>> no one in IETF have been participating for longer than 30 years
> 
> The IETF was a renaming of things that existed before the formal first IETF
> (in January, 1986). It's a direct descendant of the first 'TCP Working Group'
> meeting, held in Washington DC on March 12, 1977.
> 
> And yes, one person who was at that meeting is _still_ participating (he
> sent a message to the IETF list on 21 May, 2013; and had an RFC published
> this month - RFC 6975).
> 
> (And if you consider the Internet work to be connected to the ARPANET - which
> in some ways it is, because the RFC series shades slowly from NCP documents to
> TCP documents - he goes back a lot further than that: to RFC 1!  Thereby
> setting a 'first RFC to last RFC' record that's going to be very hard to beat!
> But I digress...)
> 
>    Noel





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