April 29, 2024
TCP/IP and the growth of the Internet
The Network Working Group
In support of BBN's successful tender for the contract, a decision was taken to form the Network Working Group (NWG). This consisted of a few young graduate scientists at the node sites of UCLA, SRI at Stanford, UCSB at Santa Barbara and the University of Utah. BBN developed the IMP software that would partition messages from the host computers into packets and reassemble those packets at the destination IMP. NWG's chosen task was to develop the protocols, or rules, needed for communications between the hosts. From April 1969, via the open forum of Request for Comments (RFCs), the NWG refined the protocols that led to the development and implementation of the Network Control Protocol (NCP).
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