At 09:01 PM 1/15/2003 -0500, Craig Partridge wrote:
In message <5(_dot_)1(_dot_)0(_dot_)14(_dot_)2(_dot_)20030114215708(_dot_)0475ef68(_at_)pop(_dot_)mindspring(_dot_)com>,
Michael StJ
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
Craig - 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.
Later, Mike