From: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa)
To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Cc: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Origins of PPP
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2019 14:05:46 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191205190546.AE4E418C089@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> (raw)
> From: Paul Ruizendaal
> I'm looking for the origins of SLIP and PPP on Unix. Both seem to have
> been developed long before their RFC's appeared.
You're dealing with an epoch when the IETF motto - "rough consensus and
running code" - really meant something. Formal RFC's way lagged protocol
development; they're the last step in the process, pretty much.
If you want to study the history, you'd need to look at Internet Drafts (if
they're still online). Failing that, look at the IETF Proceedings; I think
all the ones from this period have been scanned in. They won't have the
detail that the I-D's would have, but they should give the rough outlines
of the history.
Noel
next reply other threads:[~2019-12-05 19:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-05 19:05 Noel Chiappa [this message]
2019-12-05 19:21 ` ron
2019-12-05 19:37 ` Warner Losh
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2019-12-05 10:34 Paul Ruizendaal
2019-12-05 10:58 ` Michael Kjörling
2019-12-05 15:50 ` Richard Salz
2019-12-05 16:39 ` Clem Cole
2019-12-05 19:41 ` Warner Losh
2019-12-05 21:03 ` Clem Cole
2019-12-05 23:09 ` Doug McIntyre
2019-12-06 2:05 ` Lawrence Stewart
2019-12-06 18:31 ` Warner Losh
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