The Internet Problem
Given a variety of applications, transmission and networking technologies, including those not yet invented, how can we unify them into a single, seamless network?
Cerf & Kahn, A Protocol for Packet Network Interconnection, IEEE Transactions on Communications, May 1974
- describes the basic design of what became TCP/IP
- TCP/IP was originally one protocol, later split
- established Cerf & Kahn as the Internet’s “grandfathers”