That gave me a lead on a better one:

Network Working Group                                          J. Postel
Request for Comments: 1025                                           ISI
                                                          September 1987


                          TCP AND IP BAKE OFF

How about that!

Brian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven M. Bellovin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 3:59 PM
> To: Henning G. Schulzrinne
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Bake-off as trademark 
> 
> 
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Henning G. 
> Schulzrinne" writes
> :
> >I've been approached regarding the use of the (claimed-to-be)
> >trademarked term bake-off. It would be helpful if somebody 
> can provide
> >credible evidence that this term has been used within the technical
> >community for many years. (In case you didn't know,
> >http://www.bakeoff.com/ shows the non-technical use....)
> 
> It's used in RFC 1371, from October 1992.  Of course, that RFC also 
> says:
> 
>    The IAB/IETF are committed to a timely introduction of OSI into the
>    Internet.
> 
> Anyway -- I seem to recall seeing the term in "TCP/IP Protocol 
> Transition Handbook", from circa 193, but my copy isn't conveniently 
> accessible at the moment.
> 
>               --Steve Bellovin
> 
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