We caught up with Vint Cerf @vgcerf to talk about the inception of TCP/IP over 45 years ago. Here's what he had to say, "Bob Kahn invited me to participate in his idea of open networking in the Spring of 1973 and by September 1973 we had worked out..." [1/3]
some of the basic ideas and written a paper which was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Communications on November 5, 1973. That paper, "A Protocol for Packet Network Intercommunication" was TCP - later elaborated as TCP/IP. [2/3]
We had many collaborators who contributed to the development of this concept who deserve great credit for their commitment to the Internet and its implementation and evolution." [3/3] Full paper [pdf]: cs.princeton.edu/courses/archiv…
