{"id":17635,"date":"2022-03-01T07:29:08","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T07:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2022\/03\/01\/arpanet-pioneer-jack-haverty-says-internet-is-unfinished-the-register\/"},"modified":"2022-03-01T07:29:08","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T07:29:08","slug":"arpanet-pioneer-jack-haverty-says-internet-is-unfinished-the-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2022\/03\/01\/arpanet-pioneer-jack-haverty-says-internet-is-unfinished-the-register\/","title":{"rendered":"ARPANET pioneer Jack Haverty says internet is unfinished \u2022 The Register"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Early internet pioneer Jack Haverty has described the early structure of the internet as experimental \u2013 and said not much has changed since.<\/p>\n

Haverty was a prot\u00e9g\u00e9 of Professor JCR Licklider in the early ’70s, when he worked on the then brand new ARPANET. He is widely credited with developing File Transfer Protocol, the RFC format still used for internet standards, and one of the world’s first email systems. A contemporary of the likes of Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn, Haverty later joined Oracle in the ’90s and worked alongside folks like Tim Berners-Lee, establishing linkages between web servers and databases.<\/p>\n

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TCP had become a standard. Our immediate reaction was ‘Wait: it’s not done yet’<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The way Haverty told it, that process was deeply inelegant, with many efforts being abandoned and others set in stone without much notice.<\/p>\n

And yesterday he delivered a keynote speech at the Asia Pacific Regional Internet Conference on Operational Technologies (APRICOT). He reminisced that the internet as we know it came to be sometime around the end of 1981, when attention shifted to network operation and making internetworking technology that could provide a reliable 24\/7 service.<\/p>\n

“At one of the quarterly meetings Vint Cerf came in and dropped a bombshell on us: he said TCP had become a standard. Our immediate reaction, or at least my reaction, was ‘Wait: it’s not done yet. We have this long list of things we still have to figure out’,” Haverty recalled in his speech.<\/p>\n

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