6 Dec
2019
6 Dec
'19
1:21 a.m.
I still remember the laughter at the IETC when someone asked if PPP stood
for "Philip Pindeville's Protocol."
(if
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From: TUHS <tuhs-bounces(a)minnie.tuhs.org> On Behalf Of Noel Chiappa
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Subject: Re: [TUHS] Origins of PPP
have
From: Paul Ruizendaal
> I'm looking for the origins of SLIP and PPP on Unix. Both seem to
been developed
long before their RFC's appeared.
You're dealing with an epoch when the IETF motto - "rough consensus and
running code" - really meant something. Formal RFC's way lagged protocol
development; they're the last step in the process, pretty much.
If you want to study the history, you'd need to look at Internet Drafts they're still online). Failing that, look at the
IETF Proceedings; I think
all the
ones from this period have been scanned in. They
won't have the detail
that
the I-D's would have, but they should give the
rough outlines of the
history.
Noel