The Transmission Control Protocol Why1 #324434 "The creation of TCP will go down as one of the most important specs of the modern era." Jonathan Reichental (former Chief Information Officer, O’Reilly Media and current CIO of the City of Palo Alto). |
Forty years ago, Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn got together in the summer of 1973 and created the first specification for ARPA's inter-networking protocol laying the foundation for connecting networks implemented using different protocols together. Thus was born the Transmission Control Protocol, TCP. TCP was not the first or only protocol implemented. But over the next two decades it emerged as the undisputed standard for inter-net-working, or connecting computer networks to each other: the one we call the Internet. |
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Author: Vinton G. Cerf, Robert E. Kahn Publication info: 1974 May, IEEE Trans on Comms, Vol Com-22, No 5 May 1974 Cited by: David Price 9:31 PM 26 April 2014 GMT Citerank: (2) 324432A Protocol for Packet Network IntercommunicationAbstract: A protocol that supports the sharing of resources that exist in different packet switching networks is presented. The protocol provides for variation in individual network packet sizes, transmission failures, sequencing, flow control, end-to-end error checking, and the creation and destruction of logical process-to-process connections. Some implementation issues are considered, and problems such as internetwork routing, accounting, and timeouts are exposed.565CA4D9, 324435Remembering the Birth of the Internet40 years ago, it was not at all clear that there would be an Internet. Today, we take it for granted. On May 10th we will be launching the website to collect the stories of how the Internet came to be. What it meant to people of many different backgrounds. We are bringing together young people to collect and tell stories – and we want to CAPTURE the stories of the generation that created this protocol.57DE7179 URL:
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