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FOUNDATION OF THE INTERNET CERF, VINTON G. and KAHN, ROBERT E. A Protocol for Packet Network Intercommunication “In this paper, we present a protocol design and philosophy that supports the sharing of resources that exist in different packet switching networks…” FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING of the most important article on the Internet’s development: Cerf and Kahn’s creation of the Transmission Control Program (TCP), the blueprint for the Internet. By the early 1970’s, ARPANET (the Advanced Research Projects Agency’s computer network) “was no longer the only computer network: other countries had their own nets, and other scientific-commercial groups in America had begun theirs. Cerf began to consider joining them all together, via a series of what he referred to as gateways, to create what some people called the Catenet, for Concatenated Network, and what others called the Internet. This required not more machinery but design of TCPs, or transmission-control protocols, a universal language… Cerf and his colleagues demonstrated the first system to give access to more than one network. The Internet as we now know it was born” (Watson, The Modern Mind, 739). In IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. Com-22, No. 5, May 1974, pp. 637-648. The whole issue offered. Quarto; original wrappers rebacked. A few color repairs (likely to cover stamps) on front wrapper, otherwise fine. In beautiful custom box. Rare, particularly in original wrappers. $8500.
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