[ih] XEROX/PUP and Commercialization (was Re: FYI - Gordon Crovitz/WSJ on "Who Really Invented the Internet?")

[jeanjour at comcast.net (John Day)]

Yes, for some reason that I never understood.  The Host-to-Host 
Protocol was implemented by the Network Control Program (that part 
isn't so hard to accept) Then somehow NCP became synonymous with the 
Host-to-Host Protocol.   NCP was used often and Host-to-Host Protocol 
seldom, and I don't think I ever saw HHP. ;-)

I always wondered if it was because HHP just didn't roll off the 
tongue as easily as NCP. (Yes, there was at least one OS called MCP, 
but too few people knew about that for it to have been an influence.)


>     > From: Jack Haverty <jack at 3kitty.org>
>
>     > Also, somewhere between RFC675 and RFC793, "Transmission Control
>     > Program" became "Transmission Control Protocol".
>
>I would guess the original name was by analogy with NCP, which was 'Network
>Control Program'. (I always used to think, back in the day, that it was
>'Network Control Protocol', but when I looked, contemporanous documentation
>basically always has it 'Program'.)
>
>	Noel