What??  Those of you who insist on detracting a good conversation with
needless comments like that have tooooo much time on your hands, Don.
Why don't you and others like you stick to the topic and not be so
tempted to provide such a short-sighted remark.

Jeffrey W. Hall
Network Administrator, MCSE, CCNA, SCSA


-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of
Don Claybrook
Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 6:22 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: TCP/IP and DOD [7:39657]

Well, if we're veering off into the realm of political commentary and
putdown, I suppose it's ok to ask whether George W. Bush could spell
TCP/IP
"all by himself".

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Zeitz" 
To: 
Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 2:09 PM
Subject: RE: TCP/IP and DOD [7:39657]


> Yea, it was Al Gore who invented TCP/IP and the internet, all by
> himself.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Priscilla Oppenheimer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 4:30 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: TCP/IP and DOD [7:39657]
>
> Vint Cerf wasn't commissioned. He was a graduate student at UCLA. BBN
> set
> up the infrastructure of the ARPANET and got the Interface Message
> Processors (routers) and the 56-Kbps links up and running. To use the
> ARPANET, universities had to write software for the devices that
> connected
> to the ARPANET. TCP/IP grew out of that effort.
>
> Priscilla
>
> At 03:47 PM 4/5/02, Rico Ortiz wrote:
> >My understanding is Vint Cerf, was the creator of the TCP/IP
protocols.
> Not
> >sure but was he not commissioned by DOD/BBN during the ARPAnet days..
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf
Of
> >Steven A. Ridder
> >Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 2:05 PM
> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Subject: TCP/IP and DOD [7:39657]
> >
> >
> >I am a technical reviewer for a book, and someone wrote that TCP/IP
was
> >written by the Depertment of Defense.  I am confident that ARPAnet
was
> >commissiond by the DoD in the 60's to BBN, and maybe TCP/IP was
derived
> from
> >these early protocls, but to say the the DoD, or BBN or anyone other
> than
> >the Internet community wrote TCP and IP would be incorrect, right?  I
> seem
> >to remember that IP was used in ArpaNet, but not TCP.  I thought TCP
> was
> >written in various universities.  I could even look up the couple
(who
> used
> >to work at Cisco) who wrote it.
> >
> >--
> >
> >RFC 1149 Compliant.
> >Get in my head:
> >http://sar.dynu.com
> ________________________
>
> Priscilla Oppenheimer
> http://www.priscilla.com




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