Consisting of Digital Archives of Key Original Network Design Source Documents that are not available online elsewhere.

1. Project Report.  (EXPERIMENT #1: partially supported by ACM SIGCOMM).  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.)
2. Documents Online  (thanks to Kata Carbone!):
   • NPL's Network Architecture (Early designs from mid 1960s) (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.
   • ARPANET Network Architecture (1968-1978)
     • NEW (3/2003) RFQ (Request for Quotation)  for ARPA (the Advanced Research Projects Agency) 7/1968. You will want to focus on the last 35 pages entitled Annex B: Specifications of Interface Message Processors for the Arpa Computer Network. Document was sent out to 140 potential bidders for the construction of the network. (BBN ultimately won the contract.)
       
     • NIC # 8246: Host/Host Protocol for the ARPA Network, (prepared by Alex McKenzie), January 1972.
     • BBN Report 2918: Network Design Issues, November 1974.
     • BBN Report 1822 Specifications for the Interconnection of a Host and an IMP: Chapter 3 System Operation. (BBN report 1822 was  modified frequently; this particular version is dated May 1978)
     • A reflective set of Arpanet Milestones (1969-1978): Principal Milestones, Evolution of the Algorithms, and Evolution of Maintenance and Control Functions.  (written in 1978)
     • NEW (3/2003) Arpanet Completion Report, ARPA 1978.  (Also known as BBN Report 4799).  Originally drafted by McKenzie, Alex; Walden, David C.; Heart, Frank E.; McQuillan, J.M.
   • Internet Network Architecture: (early designs 1973-1978)  
     • A Partial Specification of an International Transmission Protocol; Vinton Cerf, 1973.
     • IEN #5: Specification of Internet Transmission Control Program: TCP (Version 2), Vinton Cerf, March 1977.
     • IEN #18: Proposed Revisions to the TCP; by Birchfiel, Plummer, Tomlinson; October 1976,  (rekeyed pdf)  (view original image)
     • IEN #21: Specification of Internetwork Transmission Control Program: TCP (Version 3); by Cerf, Postel, January 1978.
     Two early TCP specs that are readily available and thus are not located in this archive 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.