Well, actually, the IETF is a continuation of the Network Working Group, which formed organically in late 1968. We're a few days short of the 45 year mark. The NWG had open meetings, developed the layered architecture and published RFCs.
Steve Sent from my iPhone On Jul 27, 2013, at 9:07 AM, j...@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa) wrote: >> From: Abdussalam Baryun <abdussalambar...@gmail.com> > >> no one in IETF have been participating for longer than 30 years > > The IETF was a renaming of things that existed before the formal first IETF > (in January, 1986). It's a direct descendant of the first 'TCP Working Group' > meeting, held in Washington DC on March 12, 1977. > > And yes, one person who was at that meeting is _still_ participating (he > sent a message to the IETF list on 21 May, 2013; and had an RFC published > this month - RFC 6975). > > (And if you consider the Internet work to be connected to the ARPANET - which > in some ways it is, because the RFC series shades slowly from NCP documents to > TCP documents - he goes back a lot further than that: to RFC 1! Thereby > setting a 'first RFC to last RFC' record that's going to be very hard to beat! > But I digress...) > > Noel
