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{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)Baran had put more emphasis on digital voice communications than on computer communications.
This led to an outcry among many of the other Internet pioneers, who publicly attacked Kleinrock and said that his brief mention of breaking messages into smaller pieces did not come close to being a proposal for packet switching
Davies's invention of packet switching and design of computer communication networks ... were a cornerstone of the development which led to the Internet
The design of the ARPA network (ArpaNet) was entirely changed to adopt this technique.
The 1967 Gatlinburg paper was influential on the development of ARPAnet, which might otherwise have been built with less extensible technology. ... Davies was invited to Japan to lecture on packet switching.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of December 2024 (link)The first packet-switching network was implemented at the National Physical Laboratories in the United Kingdom. It was quickly followed by the ARPANET in 1969.
Perhaps the only historical difference that would have occurred if DARPA had switched to the INWG 96 protocol is that rather than Cerf and Kahn being routinely cited as "fathers of the Internet," maybe Cerf, Scantlebury, Zimmermann, and I would have been.
The authors wish to thank a number of colleagues for helpful comments during early discussions of international network protocols, especially R. Metcalfe, R. Scantlebury, D. Walden, and H. Zimmerman; D. Davies and L. Pouzin who constructively commented on the fragmentation and accounting issues; and S. Crocker who commented on the creation and destruction of associations.
Paul Baran ... focused on the routing procedures and on the survivability of distributed communication systems in a hostile environment, but did not concentrate on the need for resource sharing in its form as we now understand it; indeed, the concept of a software switch was not present in his work.
Recognising excellence in smart cards, the programme — for which ... Donald Davies and Peter Hawkes, for their joint and individual contributions
paper dated June 1966 ... introduced the concept of an "interface computer" to sit between the user equipment and the packet network.
As Kahn recalls: ... Paul Baran's contributions ... I also think Paul was motivated almost entirely by voice considerations. If you look at what he wrote, he was talking about switches that were low-cost electronics. The idea of putting powerful computers in these locations hadn't quite occurred to him as being cost effective. So the idea of computer switches was missing. The whole notion of protocols didn't exist at that time. And the idea of computer-to-computer communications was really a secondary concern.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of December 2024 (link)Paul Baran ... focused on the routing procedures and on the survivability of distributed communication systems in a hostile environment, but did not concentrate on the need for resource sharing in its form as we now understand it; indeed, the concept of a software switch was not present in his work.
Leonard Kleinrock: Donald Davies ... did make a single node packet switch before ARPA did
Donald W. Davies, who proposed a method for transmitting data that made the Internet possible
Authors who have interviewed dozens of Arpanet pioneers know very well that the Kleinrock-Roberts claims are not believed.
The Internet is really the work of a thousand people," Mr. Baran said. "And of all the stories about what different people have done, all the pieces fit together. It's just this one little case that seems to be an aberration.
I can find no evidence that he understood the principles of packet switching.[dead link]
The authors wish to thank a number of colleagues for helpful comments during early discussions of international network protocols, especially R. Metcalfe, R. Scantlebury, D. Walden, and H. Zimmerman; D. Davies and L. Pouzin who constructively commented on the fragmentation and accounting issues; and S. Crocker who commented on the creation and destruction of associations.
Recognising excellence in smart cards, the programme — for which ... Donald Davies and Peter Hawkes, for their joint and individual contributions
The 1967 Gatlinburg paper was influential on the development of ARPAnet, which might otherwise have been built with less extensible technology. ... Davies was invited to Japan to lecture on packet switching.
The first packet-switching network was implemented at the National Physical Laboratories in the United Kingdom. It was quickly followed by the ARPANET in 1969.
Perhaps the only historical difference that would have occurred if DARPA had switched to the INWG 96 protocol is that rather than Cerf and Kahn being routinely cited as "fathers of the Internet," maybe Cerf, Scantlebury, Zimmermann, and I would have been.
Roger Scantlebury was one of the major players. And Donald Davies who ran, at least he was superintendent of the information systems division or something like that. I absolutely had a lot of interaction with NPL at the time. They in fact came to the ICCC 72 and they had been coming to previous meetings of what is now called Datacomm. Its first incarnation was a long title having to do with the analysis and optimization of computer communication networks, or something like that. This started in late 1969, I think, was when the first meeting happened in Pine Hill, Georgia. I didn't go to that one, but I went to the next one that was at Stanford, I think. That's where I met Scantlebury, I believe, for the first time. Then I had a lot more interaction with him. I would come to the UK fairly regularly, partly for IFIP or INWG reasons
The system first went 'live' early in 1969
The system first went 'live' early in 1969
In nearly all respects, Davies' original proposal, developed in late 1965, was similar to the actual networks being built today.
In nearly all respects, Davies' original proposal, developed in late 1965, was similar to the actual networks being built today.
Historians credit seminal insights to Welsh scientist Donald W. Davies and American engineer Paul Baran
The system first went 'live' early in 1969
The system first went 'live' early in 1969
In nearly all respects, Davies' original proposal, developed in late 1965, was similar to the actual networks being built today.
In nearly all respects, Davies' original proposal, developed in late 1965, was similar to the actual networks being built today.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link){{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of December 2024 (link)Perhaps the only historical difference that would have occurred if DARPA had switched to the INWG 96 protocol is that rather than Cerf and Kahn being routinely cited as "fathers of the Internet," maybe Cerf, Scantlebury, Zimmermann, and I would have been.
The authors wish to thank a number of colleagues for helpful comments during early discussions of international network protocols, especially R. Metcalfe, R. Scantlebury, D. Walden, and H. Zimmerman; D. Davies and L. Pouzin who constructively commented on the fragmentation and accounting issues; and S. Crocker who commented on the creation and destruction of associations.
Donald W. Davies, who proposed a method for transmitting data that made the Internet possible
Paul Baran ... focused on the routing procedures and on the survivability of distributed communication systems in a hostile environment, but did not concentrate on the need for resource sharing in its form as we now understand it; indeed, the concept of a software switch was not present in his work.
Recognising excellence in smart cards, the programme — for which ... Donald Davies and Peter Hawkes, for their joint and individual contributions