It hasn't been without significant abuse to the original vision of TCP/IP that the internet has grown to its present size. For example, where we needed IPv6, w

It hasn't been without significant abuse to the original vision of TCP/IP that the internet has grown to its present size. For example, where we needed IPv6, we got NAT. That said, there's no doubt that TCP/IP has been a runaway success, and I'm sure the credit largely belongs to some early visionary (who I should probably know about, but no name comes to mind). Edit: Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn.