9 Apr
2018
9 Apr
'18
1:34 a.m.
On Sat, 7 Apr 2018, Noel Chiappa wrote:
I have this vague memory that the Internet-History
list decided that the
appropriate day was actually the day the format of the v4 headers was
set, i.e. 16 June, 1978. (See IEN-68, pg. 12, top.)
I'm happy to be corrected if we can reach a consensus; history is written
by the victors, after all.
Picking the date of RFC-1 seems a little odd. Why not
the day the first
packet was send over a deployed IMP, or the day the RFP was sent out, or
the contract let? And the ARPANet was just one predecessor; one might
equally have picked a CYCLADES date...
I saw the reference on one of those history sites, I think. And I already
have the date of the first packet. Again, updates to my list are always
welcome; I'm not pronouncing them ex-cathedra or anything...
I myself prefer the formulation 'there are many
white houses, but only
one White House'! :-)
Yeah, well...
--
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will
suffer."