Worth Reading: On the 49th anniversary of documenting TCP/IP


Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn’s seminal paper on IEEE transactions on communications was received on 5 November 1973 and published in May 1974. It was the public release of Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) without any explicit mention of the Internet Protocol (IP) to which it is now bound (for a good reason; they hadn’t invented it yet!).