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Sure, and they both had several predecessors. But everything sort of blends together if you don't pick a specific point to define when a protocol 'begins'. Sta
by technothrasher 4y ago
Sure, and they both had several predecessors. But everything sort of blends together if you don't pick a specific point to define when a protocol 'begins'. Standardization through RFC seems like the best choice for the core internet protocols.
- zinekeller 4y agoNope, SMTP is the older one. RFC 821 standardized SMTP, RFC 760 created IPv4, and in fact if you read RFC 801 it required a switchover from the previous Network Control Protocol (NCP) to then-new TCP/IP on the start of 1983. As the grandparent points out: > RFC numbering only indicates the order in which these protocols were standardized (or at least proposed for standardization), not when they were first used. Even today, many things are de-facto implemented before standardized so I personally don't think that it's correct to look at the RFC date as the date to consider.