[ih] Significant milestones in the history of TCP/IP

[dhc2 at dcrocker.net (Dave Crocker)]

> I think Vint's comment reminds us of the different categories of TCP /
> TCP/IP / vX milestones
...

>>   for all practical purposes, the operation of the IMPs had little to
>>   do with the design of TCP 


If the exercise about milestones specifically for TCP/IP is to be
meaningful, then it needs to be about TCP/IP and not about preceding
technologies or independent efforts. Besides not covering IMP work, it
doesn't cover the OSI TP* work, unless someone can claim and convince
that it was essential to the TCP/IP track.

The issue isn't that such other efforts were not not important; of
course they were.  The issue is focus.

d/
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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
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