The design philosophy of the DARPA Internet protocols

D Clark - Symposium proceedings on Communications …, 1988 - dl.acm.org
The Internet protocol suite, TCP/IP, was first proposed fifteen years ago. It was developed by
the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and has been used widely in
military and commercial systems. While there have been papers and specifications that
describe how the protocols work, it is sometimes difficult to deduce from these why the
protocol is as it is. For example, the Internet protocol is based on a connectionless or
datagram mode of service. The motivation for this has been greatly misunderstood. This …

The design philosophy of the DARPA internet protocols

DD Clark - ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, 1995 - dl.acm.org
The Internet protocol suite, TCP/IP, was first proposed fifteen years ago. It was developed by
the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and has been used widely in
military and commercial systems. While there have been papers and specifications that
describe how the protocols work, it is sometimes difficult to deduce from these why the
protocol is as it is. For example, the Internet protocol is based on a connectionless or
datagram mode of service. The motivation for this has been greatly misunderstood. This …
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