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(_at_)mercury(_dot_)lcs(_dot_)mit(_dot_)edu
(Noel Chiappa) wrote:
From: Abdussalam Baryun <abdussalambaryun(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com>
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