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