[ih] 30th Anniversary of TCP/IP

[mfidelman at meetinghouse.net (Miles Fidelman)]

Elizabeth Feinler wrote:
> The cutover to TCP/IP was interesting.  Joe Haughney, DCA, had much earlier picked a cutover date out of a hat, so to speak, and chose Jan. 1, 1983.  Nobody thought about the fact that most of the work to make the cutover happen was going to be done at universities and most universities would be on vacation on Jan. 1st.

Are you sure of that?  There is a long tradition of DoD agencies issuing 
RFPs just in time for folks to work over holidays (so the govies can 
come back nice and refreshed to review proposals).  Seems like this is 
in the same vein. :-)

Miles

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