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Re: 25th Anniversary!

2006-09-26 11:52:03
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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(_at_)postel(_dot_)org) 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

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