Davies: a packet-based digital communication network

What changed

Interactive computer traffic gained a concrete network design based on independently queued packets rather than dedicated circuits.

Scientific scope

The 1966 NPL proposal; the 1965 conception, 1967 multi-author paper, Baran's message blocks and later TCP are separate.

Evidence

The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. This is the 1966 NPL proposal. Davies’s 1965 conception, a 1967 multi-author paper, Baran’s distributed message-block work and later TCP are separate records.

Contributors

• Donald W. Davies · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.

• Davies et al., A Digital Communication Network for Computers Giving Rapid Response at Remote Terminals (1966)

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