On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Michael George wrote:
> On Jun 07, Robert Canary wrote:
> >
> > And MS did not develop the TCP/IP contrary to popular belief. IBM did.
>
> I don't think this is the case, but I could be mis-remembering. I think it
> was Vint Cerf and other academics that designed the protocol. And I think
> they were working under a government grant.
>
> Anyone else remember history on this better than I? I don't want to have to
> dig out my old Internetworking textbooks...
>
> -Michael
>From http://www4.ncsu.edu/~jjdawkin/tcpip/history.html
TCP and IP were developed by a Department of Defence (DoD) research
project to connect a number of different netweorks designed by
different vendors into a network of networks. The project was
initially successful because it provided a few basic services everyone
needed, including file transfer, electronic mail and remote logon. In
December 1968, the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) awarded
Bolt Beranek and Bewman a contract to design and deploy a packet
switching network. The project was called ARPANET and four nodes were
in place by the end of 1969 and connections to Europe were made by
1973.
The initial host-to-host communications protocol used in ARPANET was
the Network Control Protocol (NCP). NCP proved to be unable to keep up
with the growing network traffic load. The Transmisson Control
Protocol (TCP) and the Internet Protocol (IP) were proposed and
implemented in 1974 as a more robust suite of communications
protocols. Both protocols have had revisions with the most notable
being IP version 6 which was released in December 1995. In 1983, the
DoD mandated that all of their computer systems would use the TCP/IP
protocol suite for long-haul communications.
1983 saw a huge increase in the popularity of TCP/IP when the
University of California included TCP/IP in the communications kernel
for 4.2BSD Unix. The DoD mandated that all of its computer systems use
OSI protocols by August 1990 and phase out all use of TCP/IP.
Development of TCP/IP continued despite the mandate and is still in
use.
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