Planning a new project:
Consisting of Digital Archives of Key Original Source Documents,
with Technical Stories about the Design & Implementation
DIGITAL ARCHIVE EXPERIMENT #1 (supported by ACM
SIGCOMM)
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Project
Report
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Documents produced in Experiment #1 (thanks to Kata Carbone!):
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Network Architecture: NPL We now have 89 original pages online (scanned,
OCRed, proofed, and archived in pdf), of original
material that Donald Davies sent me for SIGCOMM99's
Technical History
of the Internet describing NPL's work on packet switching network architectures
(196x-196y).For those of you interested in critiquing the Donald Davies
experiment see Kata's notes
on the production of these 88 pages, and see the types of modifications
she made to the originals. Here is a copy of one paper before (in
scanned images), and after
OCR-ing/proofing/formatting.
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Network Architecture: Arpanet We now have 115 original pages
online (scanned, OCRed, proofed, formatted, and archived in pdf), of original
material that Lyman Chapin, Craig Partridge, and BBN's librarian Jennie
Connolly sent me when I was collecting candidate materials for SIGCOMM99's
Technical
History of the Internet.
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Network Architecture: Early TCP. These 226 pages came from
Vint Cerf and Bob Braden, and fill in an important set of specifications
that have not been available to the general public. Two specs that
are readily available and thus were not included here are: A
Protocol for Packet Network Intercommunication by Cerf/Kahn, May 1974
and RFC 675 Specification
of Internet Transmission Control Program by Cerf, Dalal, and Sunshine,
December 1974.
Related Link: a collection of the slides/and
lists of accompanying materials from the Technical
History of the Internet Tutorial (given at SIGCOMM 1999, August 31,
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA).
Chris Edmondson-Yurkanan, chris@cs.utexas.edu,
Computer Sciences Dept
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78712 1188
+1 512 471 9546
fax: +1 512 471 8885
