On Oct 21, 2013, at 6:30 AM, Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer(_at_)nic(_dot_)fr>
wrote:
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 09:08:43AM -0400,
Dave Crocker <dhc(_at_)dcrocker(_dot_)net> wrote
a message of 27 lines which said:
He invented the datagram...
Some people say it is Leonard Kleinrock. I welcome any precise
references on the history of the datagram, specially if they are
accessible online (whuich is rare for scientific papers of this
time).
Pouzin might have coined the word "datagram" in an early 70's paper (memory is
vague now), but it seems that the concept of datagram is already in Paul
Baran's seminal paper published in IEEE Trans. on Communications (March 1964).
And yes it is online (credit to David Goldberg who scanned the paper):
http://www.cs.ucla.edu/classes/cs217/Baran64.pdf
(read pages 6 & 7)
FYI
Anyway, the fact that someone did something great X years ago
(he also wrote the first shell and built Cyclades) does not mean he
cannot troll today.
I think his slides do miss some essential points, but that it's a
case of correct numbers producing incorrect recommendations.
Fair summary. His remark about the use of english is a good
example. Is it a problem? Yes? Can anyone see a solution? No (and he
does not suggest one).