[e2e] TCP design descisions

Bob Braden braden at ISI.EDU
Fri Jul 25 10:10:59 PDT 2003


  *> 
  *> Hi,
  *> 
  *> I'm looking for some paper about TCP design decisions.
  *> 
  *> For example, I've read David Clark's "The Design Philosophy of the DARPA 
  *> Internet Protocols", but even there's some information about TCP, he 
  *> acknowledges that "This section is necessarily incomplete; a complete 
  *> review of the history of TCP itself would require another paper of this 
  *> length".
  *> 
  *> I'd also find interesting the same kind of material about IP.
  *> 
  *> Kind regards,
  *> 
  *> Fernando Gont
  *> e-mail: fernando at gont.com.ar
  *> 
  *> 
  *> 

Most of the TCP and IP development history is contained in the
IEN (Internet Experimental Notes) document series.

	www.rfc-editor.org/other.html, "Internet Experiment Notes".

Bob Braden




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