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My first exposure to the internet (actually Arpanet) was in
1977 when, as a DARPA contractor, I was provided access. At
that point, the Arpanet was primarily used to support DARPA
and related activities, and was confined to a relatively
small set of users and sites. The Internet technology was
just in the process of being developed and demonstrated. In
fact, my DARPA contract was in relation to the Packet Radio
Network, and the primary motivation for the Internet
technology was to connect the mobile Packet Radio Network to
the long-haul Arpanet. Now, only 13 years later, things have
changed radically. The Internet has grown by several orders
of magnitude in size and connects a much wider community,
including academic, commercial, and government. It has
spread well beyond the USA to include many organizations
throughout the world. It has grown beyond the experimental
network to provide operational service. Its influence is
seen throughout the computer communications community.
4.15 Daniel C. Lynch, IAB Member
Daniel C. Lynch, 49, is president and founder of Interop,
Inc. (formerly named Advanced Computing Environments) in
Mountain View, California since 1985. A member of ACM, IEEE
and the IAB, he is active in computer networking with a
primary focus in promoting the understanding of network
operational behavior. The annual INTEROP (conference and
exhibition is the major vehicle for his efforts.
As the director of Information Processing Division for the
Information Sciences Institute in Marina del Rey (USC-ISI)
Lynch led the Arpanet team that made the transition from the
original NCP protocols to the current TCP/IP based protocols.
Lynch directed this effort with 75 people from 1980 until
1983.
He was Director of Computing Facilities at SRI International
in the late 70's serving the computing needs of over 3,000
employees. He formerly served as manager of the computing
laboratory for the Artificial Intelligence Center at SRI
which conducts research in robotics, vision, speech
understanding, theorem proving and distributed databases.
While at SRI he performed initial debugging of the TCP/IP
protocols in conjunction with BBN.
Lynch has been active in computer networking since 1973.
Prior to that he developed realtime software for missile
decoy detection for the USAF. He received undergraduate
training in mathematics and philosophy from Loyola University
of Los Angeles and obtained a Master's Degree in mathematics
from UCLA in 1965.
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The Internet has grown because it solves simple problems in a
simple a manner as possible. Putting together a huge
Internet has not been easy. We still do not know how to do
routing in a huge internet. When you add the realworld
requirement of commercial security and the desire for
"classes of service" we are faced with big challenges. I
think this means that we have to get a lot more involved with
operational provisioning considerations such as those that
the phone companies and credit card firms have wrestled with.
Hopefully we can do this and still maintain the rather
friendly attitude that Internetters have always had.
4.16 Dr. Jonathan B. Postel, IAB Member, RFCEditor
Jon Postel joined ISI in March 1976 as a member of the
technical staff, and is now Division Director of the
Communications Division. His current activities include a
continuing involvement with the evolution of the Internet
through the work of the various ISI projects on Gigabit
Networking, Multimedia Conferencing, Protocol Engineering,
Los Nettos, Parallel Computing System Research, and the Fast
Parts Automated Broker. Previous work at ISI included the
creation of the "Los Nettos" regional network for the Los
Angeles area, creating prototype implementations of several
of the protocols developed for the Internet community,
including the Simple Mail Transport Protocol, the Domain Name
Service, and an experimental Multimedia Mail system. Earlier
Jon studied the possible approaches for converting the
ARPANET from the NCP protocol to the TCP protocol.
Participated in the design of many protocols for the Internet
community.
Before moving to ISI, Jon worked at SRI International in Doug
Engelbart's group developing the NLS (later called Augment)
system. While at SRI Jon led a special project to develop
protocol specifications for the Defense Communication Agency
for AUTODIN-II. Most of the development effort during this
period at ARC was focused on the National Software Works.
Prior to working at SRI, Jon spent a few months with Keydata
redesigning and reimplementing the NCP in the DEC PDP-15 data
management system used by ARPA. Before Keydata, Jon worked
at the Mitre Corporation in Virginia where he conducted a
study of ARPANET Network Control Protocol implementations.
Jon received his B.S. and M.S. in Engineering in 1966 and
1968 (respectively) from UCLA, and the Ph.D. in Computer
Science in 1974 from UCLA. Jon is a member of the ACM. Jon
continues to participate in the Internet Activities Board and
serve as the editor of the "Request for Comments" Internet
document series.
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My first experience with the ARPANET was at UCLA when i was
working in the group that became the Network Measurement
Center. When we were told that the first IMP would be
installed at UCLA we had to get busy on a number of problems.
We had to work with the other early sites to develop
protocols, and we had to get our own computing environment in
order -- this included creating a time-sharing operating
system for the SDS Sigma-7 computer. Since then the ARPANET
and then the Internet have continued to grow and always
faster than expected. I think three factors contribute to
the success of the Internet: 1) public documentation of the
protocols, 2) free (or cheap) software for the popular
machines, and 3) vendor independence.
4.17 Joyce K. Reynolds, IETF User Services Area Director
Joyce K. Reynolds has been affiliated with USC/Information
Sciences Institute since 1979. Ms. Reynolds has contributed
to the development of the DARPA Experimental Multimedia Mail
System, the Post Office Protocol, the Telnet Protocol, and
the Telnet Option Specifications. She helped update the File
Transfer Protocol. Her current technical interests include:
internet protocols, internet management, technical
researching, writing, and editing, Internet security
policies, and Telnet Options. She recently established a new
informational series of notes for the Internet community: FYI
(For Your Information) RFCs. FYI RFCs are documents useful
to network users. Their purpose is to make available general
and useful information with broad applicability.
Joyce K. Reynolds received Bachelor of Arts and Master of
Arts degrees in the Social Sciences (History) from the
University of Southern California (USC). Ms. Reynolds is a
member of the American Society of Professional and Executive
Women. She is affiliated with Phi Alpha Theta (Honors
Society). She is currently listed in Who's Who in the
American Society of Professional and Executive Women and
USC's Who's Who in the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences
Alumni Directory.
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It has been an interesting twelve years in my professional
life to participate in the ARPANET/Internet world, from the
transition of the TENEX to TOPs-20 machines in 1979 to
surviving the NCP to TCP transition in 1980. Celebrating the
achievement of the ISI 1000 Hour Club where one of our TOPs-
20 machines set a record for staying up and running for 1000
consecutive hours without crashing, to watching the cellular
split of the ARPANET into the Milnet and Internet sides, and
surviving the advent of Unix in 1985. All in all, my most
memorable times are the people who have contributed to the
research and development of the Internet. Lots of hard,
intense work, coupled with creative, exciting fun. As for
the future, there is much discussion and enthusiasm about the
next step in the evolution of the Internet. An
"international" Internet is on the very tip of the horizon.
Utilizing the global Internet will improve the quality of
collaborative research. I'm looking forward.
4.18 Gregory Vaudreuil, IESG Member
Greg Vaudreuil currently serves as both the Internet
Engineering Steering Group Secretary, and the IETF Manager.
As IESG Secretary, he is responsible for shepherding Internet
standards track protocols through the standards process. As
IETF Manager, he shares with the IESG Area Directors the
responsibility for chartering and managing the progress of
all working groups in the IETF. He chairs the Internet Mail
Extensions working group of the IETF.
He graduated from Duke University with a degree in Electrical
Engineering and a major in Public Policy Studies. He was
thrust into the heart of the IETF by accepting a position
with the Corporation for National Research Initiatives to
manage the explosive growth of the IETF.
5. Security Considerations
Security issues are not discussed in this memo.
6. Author's Address
Gary Scott Malkin
FTP Software, Inc.
26 Princess Street
Wakefield, MA 01880
Phone: (617) 246-0900
EMail: gmalkin@ftp.com