Alex McKenzie Collection of
Computer Networking Development Records, 1969-1990. Finding Aid.
Summary Information
Alex McKenzie
collection of computer networking development records
1969-1990
McKenzie, Alexander A. (Alexander Anderson),
1940-
9 boxes (3.0
cubic feet)
Language: English
CBI 123
The collection contains
INWG records, Internet Experiment Notes (IEN) and ARPANET Reports, collected by
Alex McKenzie during his tenure with INWG.
University of
Minnesota Libraries. Charles Babbage Institute.
Access and Use
The collection was received by the Charles Babbage Institute from Alex
McKenzie in 1996.
Access to the collection is unrestricted.
The Charles Babbage Institute holds the copyright to all materials in
the collection, except for items covered by a prior copyright (such as
published materials). Researchers may quote from the collection under the fair
use provisions of the copyright law (Title 17, U.S. Code).
Alex McKenzie Collection of Computer Networking Development Records
(CBI 123), Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
Arrangement
The collection is divided into three series:
- International Packet Network Working Group (INWG)
Records
- Internet Experiment Notes (IEN)
- ARPANET Reports
The International Packet Network Working Group (INWG) Records are
further subdivided into the following subseries:
- General Notes
- Protocol Notes
- Experiments Notes
- Legal/Political Notes
- Security Note
- Newsletter File
Historical Note
In 1972 a group of computer network researchers organized themselves
into the International Packet Network Working Group (INWG) with Dr. Vinton Cerf
as its first Chair. At the Fall 1972 International Conference of Computer
Communication (ICCC) the group had its first meeting. In January 1974 INWG
became Working Group 6.1 (WG6.1) and Technical Committee 6.1 (TC6) of the
International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP), but continued to be
referred to as INWG. The group took as its charter the development of
international standard protocols for internetworking. The concepts which led to
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) were first discussed
in this group.
Alex McKenzie of Bolt, Beranek, and Newman (BBN), the firm that
developed much of the ARPA computer network (ARPANET), actively participated in
INWG, serving as Chair from 1979-1982 and Secretary beginning in 1983.
Collection Scope and Content Note
The collection contains general notes, protocol notes, experiments
notes, legal/political notes, security notes and a newsletter file regarding
INWG.
General Notes, written between 1972-1979 and numbered consecutively
from 1-210 (missing 11 notes) plus one additional file of unnumbered notes, are
primarily copies of papers, proposals, studies, diagrams, and some code
concerning packet switching, sequencing, and other networking issues. They also
include information on INWG workshops and INWG ad-hoc committees. Scattered
throughout the General Notes are a few letters and memos.
Protocol Notes, numbered consecutively from 1-92, are primarily copies
of papers, reports, summaries, protocol code, and diagrams presented by INWG
members between 1974-1978. The protocol notes address communication between
computers on an international scale, giving the most attention to creating
functional and compatible means for electronic data transmission between
nations.
Experiments Notes contains three INWG "experiments," papers defining
plans which may or may not have been implemented.
Legal/Political Notes contains three files addressing electronic data
transmission security, particularly aimed at banking and postal services.
Newsletter File includes copies of newsletters and memos distributed
to INWG members between 1976-1990. Most INWG News
issues, later titled INWG Newsletter , are in
letter format. In 1984-1987 The Protocols-Subgroup
Newsletter was included with the INWG
Newsletter and has a masthead with volume and issue numbers. The
1988-1990 issues were distributed separately. Some folders contain
correspondence, memos, pamphlets and other newsletters.
Other materials in the collection include Internet Experiment Notes
(IEN) and ARPANET Reports.
The Internet Experiment Notes (IEN) include Notes #1-212 (missing 7
notes) by Bolt, Beranek, and Newman, Inc. (BBN), Information Science Institute
(ISI), Stanford Research Institute (SRI), and other researchers' work on
electronic data transmission. The notes consist of printouts of protocol codes,
algorithms, computer language code, and project proposals and descriptions.
Many of the notes relate directly to research networks sponsored by ARPA,
including ARPANET, the Atlantic Packet Satellite Network (SATNET) and various
Packet Radio networks. Some texts direct discussions and methods of
communication between nodes. The notes are not a continuous progression
following one plan or program development, instead they are coordinated efforts
towards linking computer systems and computer networks. Also included is a
partial index to the IENs.
The ARPANET Reports group BBN's technical proposal, installation
lists, and status reports to ARPA from BBN on the development of ARPANET.
Acronyms used in this finding aid
- Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA)
- Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET)
- Bolt, Beranek, and Newman, Inc. (BBN)
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
- Information Science Institute (ISI), University of Southern
California
- International Conference of Computer Communication (ICCC)
- International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP)
- International Packet Network Working Group (INWG)
- International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee
(CCITT)
- National Physical Laboratory (NPL)
- Network Control Center (NCC) affiliated with BBN
- Societe Internationale de Telecommunication Aeronautique
(SITA)
- Stanford Research Institute (SRI) Telecommunications Sciences
Center (TSC)
- Data Unit (DU)
- Experimental Packet Switched Service (EPSS)
- High-level Data Link Control Procedure (HDLC)
- Internet Experiment Notes (IEN)
- Interface Message Processors (IMP)
- Message Processing Module (MPM)
- Network Information Packets (NIP's)
- Packet Switching Network (PSN)
- Processing State Transition Digrams (PSTD)
- Specification and Description Language (SDL)
- TENEX--BBN developed operating system
- Terminal Interface Processor (TIP)
- Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
- User Interface Program (UIP)
Subject Terms
- This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog
of the University of Minnesota Libraries. Researchers desiring materials about
related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these
headings.
- Cerf,
Vinton G., 1943-
- Bolt,
Beranek, and Newman, inc.
- International
Packet Network Working Group.
- ARPANET (Computer network)
Box and Folder List
| Location |
Title |
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International Packet Network Working Group
(INWG) |
| |
General Notes |
|
Box 1 |
General Notes index: 1-77, 98-111, 116-125 citing note
number, author, and title; INWG Protocol Notes index: 1-10, 28-38 citing note
number, author, title and date. Box 1, Folder 1
|
| |
General Notes # 1-14: many notes list member names,
French project PTT HERMES subgroups, notes 3 & 9 are INWG mailing list,
1972. Box 1, Folder 2
|
| |
General Notes # 17, 20, 22, 26. Box 1, Folder 3
|
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General Notes # 27. Box 1, Folder 4
|
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General Notes # 28 Plenary Meeting; unpublished paper
by V. Cerf: "A Partial Specification of an International Transmission Protocol"
with comments by McKenzie and Walden. June 7-8, 1973 Box 1, Folder 5
|
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General Notes # 29-40. Box 1, Folder 6
|
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General Notes # 41-50: #49 is a paper presented at the
1st European Workshop on Computer Networks, Arles, France, April-May 1973. Box 1, Folder 7
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General Notes # 52-64: # 55 copy of an article from
Computer magazine, February 1974. Box 1, Folder 8
|
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General Notes # 52-64: # 62 to be presented to the
National Telecommunications Conference in San Diego, CA, December 1974. Box 1, Folder 8
|
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General Notes # 65-70. Box 1, Folder 9
|
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General Notes # 71-77. Box 2, Folder 1
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General Notes # 78-94. Box 2, Folder 2
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General Notes # 96, 96.1, 97-99, 101-115. Box 2, Folder 3
|
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General Notes # 116-137. Box 2, Folder 4
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General Notes # 138-149. Box 2, Folder 5
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General Notes # 150-168. Box 2, Folder 6
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Box 3 |
General Notes # 169-187. Box 3, Folder 1
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General Notes # 188-200. Box 3, Folder 2
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General Notes # 201-210. Box 3, Folder 3
|
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General Notes: memo from Bob Metcalfe, 5 reports from
the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) # 14665, 14667-14670. Box 3, Folder 4
|
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Protocol Notes |
|
Box 4 |
Protocol Note # 1: "Character Control Procedures,"
EPSS Liaison Group, April 1974. Box 4, Folder 1
|
| |
Protocol Note # 1: "Experimental Packet Switched
Service," EPSS Customer Document, January 1974. Box 4, Folder 1
|
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Protocol Note # 2: "Selecting Sequence Numbers," R. S.
Tomlinson, August 1974. Box 4, Folder 2
|
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Protocol Notes # 3: "Note on Single Message
Communication," Dag Belsnes, September 1974. Box 4, Folder 3
|
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Protocol Notes # 4: "More on Selecting Sequence
Numbers," Y. Dalal, October 1974. Box 4, Folder 4
|
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Protocol Notes # 5-10. Box 4, Folder 5
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Protocol Notes # 11-25. Box 4, Folder 6
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Protocol Notes # 26-35. Box 4, Folder 7
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Protocol Notes # 36-50. Box 4, Folder 8
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Protocol Notes # 51-62. Box 4, Folder 9
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Box 5 |
Protocol Notes # 63-73. Box 5, Folder 1
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Protocol Notes # 74-85. Box 5, Folder 2
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Protocol Notes # 86-92. Box 5, Folder 3
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Experiments Notes |
|
Box 5 |
Experiments Note # 1: "A Protocol Experiment." Eric R.
Mader, William W. Plummer, and Raymond S. Tomlinson, August 1974. Box 5, Folder 4
|
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Experiments Note # 2: "An Experimental Simulation of a
Satellite Gateway." J. Burchfiel and R. Tomlinson, BBN-TENEX (type of operating
system), August 1974. Box 5, Folder 5
|
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Experiments Note # 3: "Aim and Objective of
Internetwork Experiments." David Lloyd, Martine Galland, Peter T. Kirstein,
University College, London, February 1975. Box 5, Folder 6
|
| |
Legal/Political Notes |
|
Box 5 |
Legal/Political Note # 1: "Federally-Regulated
Carriers and Chartered Banks: Participation in Commercial Data-Processing,"
Government of Canada, January 1975. Box 5, Folder 7
|
| |
Legal/Political Note # 2: "Towards an Electronic
Payments System," Government of Canada, 1975. Box 5, Folder 7
|
| |
Legal/Political Note # 3: "General Principles for the
Lease of International (Continental and Intercontinental) Telecommunication
Circuits for Private Service," used for Legal/Political Issues Committee of
IFIP WG 6.1, May 1975. Box 5, Folder 8
|
| |
Legal/Political Note # 4: "Public Policy Issues
Concerning ARPANET," Franklin F. Kuo, University of Hawaii, ARPA Order No.
1956, June 1975. Box 5, Folder 8
|
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Legal/Political Note # 5: "The Management of an
International Data Network," D. L. A. Barber, undated. Box 5, Folder 9
|
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Legal Political Note # 6: " The Network Business -
Monopolies and Entrepreneurs," L. Pouzin, undated. Box 5, Folder 9
|
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Security Note |
|
Box 5 |
Security Note # 1: "Report of Rapporteur Group
Meetings, 21 and 25 Nov., 1974, Geneva," U. C. Strahlendorf, February 1974. Box 5, Folder 10
|
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Newsletter File |
|
Box 6 |
INWG News -#
76/001-76/003, 1976. Box 6, Folder 1
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INWG News -#
77/001-77/007, 1977. Box 6, Folder 2
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INWG News -#
78/001-78/006, 1978. Box 6, Folder 3
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INWG News -# 79/001, #
79/004. Box 6, Folder 4
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INWG Newsletter -# 79/002,
79/5-79/6. Box 6, Folder 4
|
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INWG Newsletter -#
80/1-80/04, 1980. Box 6, Folder 5
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INWG Newsletter -# 81/01,
81/03, 1981. Box 6, Folder 6
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INWG Newsletter -#
82/01-82/02, 1982. Box 6, Folder 7
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INWG Newsletter -#
83/1-83/2, 1983. Box 6, Folder 8
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INWG Newsletter -#
84/1-84/3, 1984. Box 6, Folder 9
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INWG Newsletter -#
85/1-85/2, 1985. Box 6, Folder 10
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INWG Newsletter -#
86/2-86/3, 1986. Box 6, Folder 11
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INWG Newsletter -# 87/1,
1987. Box 6, Folder 12
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The Protocols-Subgroup
Newsletter -# Vol. 5, No. 1, 1988. Box 6, Folder 13
|
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The Protocols-Subgroup
Newsletter -# Vol. 6, No. 1, 1989. Box 6, Folder 14
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The Protocols-Subgroup
Newsletter -# Vol. 7, No. 1, 1990. Box 6, Folder 15
|
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Internet Experiment Notes (IEN) |
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Box 7 |
Internet Experiment Notes # 1-84. Box 7, Folder 6-12
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Box 8 |
Internet Experiment Notes # 85-148. Box 8, Folder 1-6
|
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Box 9 |
Internet Experiment Notes # 149-198, 200-201, 207-209,
211-212. Box 9, Folder 1-6
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Internet Experiment Notes Index, September 1982. Box 9, Folder 7
|
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Internet Protocol Transition Workbook (IPTW), March 1982
table of contents, March 1982. Box 9, Folder 7
|
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ARPANET Reports |
|
Box 7 |
ARPANET routing and metering algorithms-status reports:
1971 written by Robert E. Kahn and Robert Sittler, 1971. Box 7, Folder 1
|
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ARPANET routing and metering algorithms-status reports:
1972 written by Crowther, Walden, and Mimno, 1972. Box 7, Folder 1
|
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BBN abstract reports for Advanced Research Project
Agency (ARPA) concerning ARPANET from 1969-1982, includes BBN bibliography of
project reports and papers, 1982. Box 7, Folder 2
|
| |
BBN report: "Interface Message Processors for the ARPA
Computer Network," January 2-March 31, 1969. Box 7, Folder 3
|
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BBN proposal: Technical Section of BBN Proposal accepted
by ARPA for ARPANET, 1969. Box 7, Folder 4
|
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Installation History of first ARPANET Interface Message
Protocol (IMP) and Terminal Interface Message Processor (TIP) software,
1969-1976. Box 7, Folder 5
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