Respecting the protocols we all use daily: Transmission Control Protocol

From time to time, it's good to reflect back and give some respect to previous work that allows you to work the way you work today.

I recently needed to check how the venerable TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) protocol works, and as I often do, I went to the source: RFC 675. If you have followed the RFC documents, you know that their number increases with each new submission, and today we are at number of around 8000. So, document for TCP is already from December, 1974. Take a moment to reflect that!

Already in mid-70s, the groundwork was laid for socket-based communications. For example, the familiar .NET socket APIs that you use today had already been laid out in the RFC document. Note how the title of the document is "Transmission Control Program".

Respect!