In message <01JEMIE2WJS691XASM@ACES.COM>, Ehud Gavron writes:
BBN still thinks they invented tcp/ip.
And we have a pretty good claim. If you go back and look at the history of networking in the 1970s, BBN was a very active participant -- probably more active than any other corporation. And BBNers figure prominently on early drafts of many of the major protocols we know today, including TELNET, FTP, email, the New ARPAnet routing protocol (the protocol that OSPF and IS-IS are based on) and EGP (predecessor to BGP). We've occasionally tooted the horn a bit too strongly (there's a famous report c. 1980 that some Internet pioneers periodically bring up :-)) but we're certainly entitled to toot it. Thanks! Craig Partridge Chief Scientist, BBN Technologies (part of GTE) PS: BBN Technologies does research. What was BBN Planet is now GTE Internetworking. So sending me day-to-day operational questions is generally a waste of time. (I'm on this list to track issues in future operations...)