"dpr >> udp and me"
http://www.reed.com/blog-dpr/?page_id=6
A number of people have lately taken to introducing me as "the
designer of UDP", or worse "the inventor of UDP." While I'm honored
whenever anybody appreciates important design choices where I've been
involved, this is not quite right, and it's a little embarrassing to
be the inventor of something so simple. Actually, UDP was
"un-designed" by me and others.By this I mean that UDP was the final
expression of a process that today we would call "factoring" an
overcomplex design. Originally, the ARPANET end-to-end protocol NCP
was a "kitchen sink" oriented toward providing remote teletype-centric
access using the "telnet" protocol and the "FTP" protocol to remote
machines over a packet network.
-- David P. Reed
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David's a great guy, by the way.
--Lauren--
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