20 Years—One Standard: The Story of TCP/IP
Jonathan B. Spira · 2003
The story of TCP/IP grew out of the experiences Robert Kahn had with the Interface Message Processor (IMP). Kahn had joined DARPA after helping Bolt Beranek Newman build a new government/research network, the ARPANET. He had the idea that ultimately led to a new protocol, and in 1973 joined forces with Vinton Cerf, then a faculty member at Stanford. Cerf had been working with the Network Control Protocol (NCP) at UCLA; this experience made them the perfect team to collaborate on the development of what was to become TCP/IP.