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come to this conference because of a
serious academic or business interest in networking.
At the conference we formed the
International Network Working Group or INWG, Stephen
Crocker, who by now was at DARPA after leaving UCLA, didn't
think he had time to organize the INWG, so he proposed that
I do it.
I organized and chaired INWG for the
first four years, at which time it was affiliated with the
International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP).
Alex Curran, who was president of BNR, Inc., a research
laboratory of Bell Northern Research in Palo Alto,
California, was the U.S. representative to IFIP Technical
Committee 6.
He shepherded the transformation of
the INWG into the first working group of 6, working group
6.1 (IFIP WG 6.1).
In November 1972, I took up an
assistant professorship post in computer science and
electrical engineering at Stanford. I was one of the first
Stanford acquisitions who had an interest in computer
networking. Shortly after I got to Stanford, Bob Kahn told
me about a project he had going with SRI International, BBN,
and Collins Radio, a packet radio project. This was to get a
mobile networking environment going. There was also work on
a packet satellite system, which was a consequence of work
that had been done at the University of Hawaii, based on the
ALOHA-Net, done by Norman Abramson, Frank Kuo, and Richard
Binder. It was one of the first uses of multi-access
channels. Bob Metcalfe used that idea in designing Ethernet
before founding 3COM to commercialize it.
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Bob Kahn described the packet radio
and satellite systems, and the internet problem, which was
to get host computers to communicate across multiple packet
networks without knowing the network technology underneath.
As a way of informally exploring this problem, I ran a
series of seminars at Stanford attended by students and
visitors. The students included Carl Sunshine, who is now at
Aerospace Corporation running a laboratory and specializing
in the area of protocol proof of correctness; Richard Karp,
who wrote the first TCP code and is now president of ISDN
technologies in Palo Alto. There was Judy Estrin, a founder
of Bridge Communications, which merged with 3COM, and is now
an officer at Network Computing Devices (NCD), which makes X
display terminals. Yogen Dalal, who edited the December 1974
first TCP specification, did his thesis work with this
group, and went on to work at PARC where he was one of the
key designers of the Xerox Protocols.
Jim Mathis, who was involved in the
software of the small-scale LSI-11 implementations of the
Internet protocols, went on to SRI International and then to
Apple where he did Mac TCP. Darryl Rubin went on to become
one of the vice presidents of Microsoft. Ron Crane handled
hardware in my Stanford lab and went on to key positions at
Apple. John Shoch went on to become assistant to the
president of Xerox and later ran their System Development
Division.
Bob Metcalfe attended some of the
seminars as well. Gerard Lelann was visiting from IRIA and
the Cyclades/Cigale project, and has gone on to do work in
distributed computing. We had Dag Belsnes from University of
Oslo who did work on the correctness of protocol design;
Kuninobu (from Tohoku University); and Jim Warren, who went
on to found the West Coast Computer Faire. Thinking about
computer networking problems has had a powerful influence on
careers; many of these people have gone on to make major
contributions.
The very earliest work on the TCP
protocols was done at three
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