Re: IETF @ 40

[Bob Hinden <[e-mail]>]

Mike,

> On Jan 17, 2026, at 4:47 PM, Mike StJohns <mstjohns=[e-mail]> wrote:
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> Hi Greg - I’m trying to remember exactly what happened, but I think it was about noon on the second day of GADS that Mike Corrigan showed up and explained that the IAB had declared that GADS was now INENG and INARC. Internet Engineering and Internet Architecture.  So today is probably the 40th anniversary of the beginning of what became the IETF.   
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> Bob? Lixia?  

Correct.

I continue to be amused by the image of the cover page of the proceedings (copied below).   You can clearly see where someone pasted on the cover page “FIRST IETF” before it was scanned.     What started as a GADS Talk Force meeting ended as the first IETF meeting.   One could also argue that the real first IETF meeting was the one that followed.   The proceedings of that meeting do say "Internet Engineering Task Force”.

Bob






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> Mike
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> Sent from my iPad
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>> On Jan 16, 2026, at 15:22, Greg Wood <[e-mail]> wrote:
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>> Hello!
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>> Forty years ago today, 21 people gathered in San Diego, California for the first meeting of what became the Internet Engineering Task Force. There’s a short blog post to mark the anniversary:
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>> https://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-40/
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>> -Greg
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