Great to see the detailed analysis. Thank you! I'd put more weight on Baran's claims. He has primacy, it was clearly documented in the Rand Techical Reports

Great to see the detailed analysis. Thank you! I'd put more weight on Baran's claims. He has primacy, it was clearly documented in the Rand Techical Reports and then retold well in the Wired article with Stewart Brand. Yes, Cerf, Kahn et al revived and invented a good amount of it, but the ideas had been circulating for a decade by that point, at the phone companies and US military, which is where the academic money came from anyways.