[ih] principles of the internet

[jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa)]

    > From: Richard Bennett <richard at bennett.com>

    > The End-to-End Arguments paper, for example, followed the design of the
    > protocols by nearly ten years

A cautionary note: just because something turned up in a paper in year X, that
doesn't mean it wasn't thought of, and guiding things, well before that.

For example, fate-sharing is first described (that I know of) in the "Design
Philosophy of the DARPA Internet Protocols" paper, from 1988. However, the
'fate-sharing' ideas date back much earlier than that paper - I recall seeing
that idea all laid out (including the term 'fate-sharing') on a set of slides
Dave Clark had used for a presentation sometime around '77-'78, when I first
joined the Internet effort.

Why it didn't make it onto paper until a decade later, I have no idea...

	Noel