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| The Government didn't invent TCP and Al Gore was on the steering committees whose chairmanship lead votes made sure the continued funding for major areas of the future Internet were born.
At any rate, from RFC675
»www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc675.txt
SPECIFICATION OF INTERNET TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROGRAM
December 1974 Version
1. INTRODUCTION
This document describes the functions to be performed by the
internetwork Transmission Control Program [TCP] and its interface to
programs or users that require its services. Several basic
assumptions are made about process to process communication and these
are listed here without further justification. The interested reader
is referred to [CEKA74, TOML74, BELS74, DALA74, SUNS74] for further
discussion.
The authors would like to acknowledge the contributions of R.
Tomlinson (three way handshake and Initial Sequence Number
Selection), D. Belsnes, J. Burchfiel, M. Galland, R. Kahn, D. Lloyd,
W. Plummer, and J. Postel all of whose good ideas and counsel have
had a beneficial effect (we hope) on this protocol design. In the
early phases of the design work, R. Metcalfe, A. McKenzie, H.
Zimmerman, G. LeLann, and M. Elie were most helpful in explicating
the various issues to be resolved. Of course, we remain responsible
for the remaining errors and misstatements which no doubt lurk in the
nooks and crannies of the text. |
