IP: Re: another IEEE ward for Steve Crocker

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

>Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 16:56:40 -0500
>To: farber@cis.upenn.edu
>From: Dave Crocker <dhc2@dcrocker.net>
>Subject: Re: IP: another IEEE ward for Steve Crocker
>Cc: ip-sub-1@majordomo.pobox.com
>
>At 04:21 AM 7/26/2001, David Farber wrote:
>>... the IEEE Board of Directors has named you [ Steve Crocker]  the 
>>recipient of the 2002 IEEE Internet Award with the following citation:
>>"For leadership in creation of key elements in open evolution of Internet 
>>protocols: Network Working Group, Request for Comments process and 
>>layered protocol approaches."
>
>Dave,
>
>(Please ignore any last-name similarity with the awardee.  It has no 
>bearing on what follows...)
>
>The timing is pretty good.  30 years earlier, in the Fall of 1972, the 
>Arpanet team gave the first public demonstration, in Washington DC, 
>showing the underlying packet net, and the fully integrated application 
>services. [ I was there djf] As Steve noted in RFC 1000, his hearty band 
>of Western graduate students did their work assuming that eventually the 
>pros from the East would come in and deliver the ultimate solution.
>
>However, there were no pros.  The work of the grad students set the stage 
>for all of the end-to-end work on the Internet.  The underlying transport 
>service needed to be replaced because a) the packet-switching folks had 
>over-promised reliability, and b) the original transport system (NCP) had 
>extra knobs and switches for experimenting.  However essentially all of 
>the application work remains in use.  (It was 10 years before a separate 
>email protocol was created, and really it was only an upgrade to the 
>existing protocol that had been part of file transfer.)
>
>At the Arpanet "Coming Out Party" in 1972, the demonstration worked so 
>well that one could connect to a BBN computer in Boston, decide it was too 
>slow, and then connect to a similar machine at USC-ISI, in Marina del 
>Rey.  Such a change of venue worked so well that even knowledgeable 
>observers of the demonstration did not realize that they had just crossed 
>the country.
>
>d/
>
>
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