RE: Sunday's LTAR

[Garrett Wollman <wollman>]

<<On Wed, 22 Dec 1999 06:46:43 -0500, "Larry A. Lovering" <lloverin@bbnplanet.com> said:

> The facts are, that much of the underpinnings of the Internet were invented
> here, in Cambridge, at Bolt, Berenek & Newman (BBN), now GTE
> Internetworking.

Everyone likes to claim some part in it.  I would suggest that a large
part of the credit goes to Bob Metcalfe, then a graduate student from
Harvard working on the fifth floor of this building, who gave us
Ethernet.  A good deal of credit also goes to Dave Clark, who was the
Chief Protocol Architect of the ARPANET during the crucial years of
the NCP-TCP/IP transition, the introduction of DNS, and a number of
other important systems which remain with us today.

We can't also forget more recent figures like NSF's Steve Wolff, who
played a crucial role in the transition of the Internet backbone
networks into commercial hands -- and people like Rick Adams at UUNET
who took him up on the challenge and built those commercial backbones.

Replies to me personally, please.

-GAWollman

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