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IPv4

The 2004 Turing award was given to Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn for the invention of TCP/IP.

Concepts from the 1974 IEEE paper:

  • Gateways
    • Separate different L2 networks
  • TCP Port Multiplexing
  • Connection Oriented
  • Sequence Numbers
  • Flow Control
  • Retransmission

References

History of the Internet - Internet Society

IEN 54 - Internetwork Protocol Specification Version 4

A Protocol for Packet Network Intercommunication - IEEE Transactions on Communications

IPv4 - Wikipedia

RFC 791: Internet Protocol | RFC Editor

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