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Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> Sat, 19 March 2022 19:58 UTC

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Subject: Re: [hackathon] Open Source Software and network protocol standards
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On 20-Mar-22 03:03, Lars Eggert wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 2022-3-19, at 0:47, Stuart Cheshire <cheshire=40apple.com@dmarc.ietf.org> wrote:
>> Can you think of cases where an Open Source Software implementation clearly helped a networking protocol become successful? Was that Open Source implementation driven by the people (or companies) actively working on the protocol standard? Or was it created by an independent community following the standards development process?
> 
> QUIC qualifies, I think. Almost all the implementations (including the initial Google-proprietary version) are open source, and for the IETF version, implementations and standardization were tightly coupled. We did combined WG interims plus interop events six times a year for several years.

I don't remember, if I ever knew, the historical sequence that led to the original BSD license, but didn't an early BSD Unix release include a small package called TCP/IP? At least by 1988, when worldwide growth of TCP/IP really took off, it carried a primitive form of the BSD license.

Another well known case is the public domain release of the original HTTP code in April 1993. That code probably didn't survive long but its release with no strings attached was very significant. See https://cds.cern.ch/record/1164399?ln=en

    Brian

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