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The Clamor Outside as INWG Debated: Economic War Comes to Networking
- IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
- IEEE Computer Society
- Volume 38, Number 3, July-September 2016
- pp. 58-77
- 10.1353/ahc.2016.0034
- Article
- Additional Information
Abstract:
The debate inside the International Network Working Group (INWG) and the events between 1974 and 1976 that led up to the INWG 96 transport protocol were a small part of a much larger debate going on within the communications and networking industry. This article places the INWG discussions in this wider context to better understand the technical points and implications and their ultimate impact on established business models.