Protocol for a computer network
D. B. McKay, Donald Karp · IBM Systems Journal · 1973
The primary intent of the protocol presented in this paper is to facilitate and control the transfer of data through a network of computers. Although the protocol effectively deals with this problem, it only begins to solve the problems of a resource-sharing and distributed-data capability that networks should provide. The problems of managing data on a single system are difficult, but a multisystem data-management capability is probably an order of magnitude more difficult.