David P. Reed has a very impressive CV. Designer of UDP/IP, per above thesis also inventor of MVCC, and a co author of the (imho) important "End-to-end argumen

David P. Reed has a very impressive CV. Designer of UDP/IP, per above thesis also inventor of MVCC, and a co author of the (imho) important "End-to-end arguments in system design" whitepaper, etc ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_P._Reed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_P._Reed [edit: alt url for OP: https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/16279/05331643-MIT.pdf https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/16279/0533164...]