Laurels for Giving the Internet Its Language

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Tice DeYoung <ticed () bellatlantic net>
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 09:15:50 -0500
To: <dave () farber net>, Ip <ip () v2 listbox com>
Cc: <ticed () bellatlantic net>
Subject: Re: [IP] Laurels for Giving the Internet Its Language

Dave,

    The current wrangle over who invented the Internet was due to the
way ARPA managed the original networking research.  They treated
everyone who participated on the early efforts as central to the
final result.  Every research project was needed and was integrated
into the whole, thus no one part could be said to have been the most
important.  History shouldn't look on this as who was most important,
or who was the creator of the Internet, but should rather recognize
the masterful management that ARPA used to orchestrate the entire
endeavor.  The current DARPA could not do so now.

    That being said, congratulations to Vint & Bob for their richly
deserved  2004 ACM Turing Award for their watershed work on tcp/ip.

Tice

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