You found me. J I regret that I don’t have any authority to speak for Rand on releasability of things done for them, and I had no role in creating the actual code. I would hope they would view this as beneficial historical work, but you will need to contact Rand, public affairs office or some such. Carl Sunshine Principal Engineer The Aerospace Corporation 310-336-6991 carl.sunshine@aero.org carl.a.sunshine.ctr@mail.smil.mil JWICS: carl.sunshine_FFRDC@af.ic.gov From: Alex McKenzie [mailto:amckenzie3@yahoo.com] Sent: Monday, February 13, 2017 9:42 AM To: Carl A Sunshine <carl.a.sunshine@aero.org> Subject: Fw: [ih] RAND Unix Port code Carl, If this email address still works for you, here's a question directed at you. Cheers, Alex ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Noel Chiappa <jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu<mailto:jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>> To: internet-history@postel.org<mailto:internet-history@postel.org> Cc: wkt@tuhs.org<mailto:wkt@tuhs.org>; jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu<mailto:jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> Sent: Monday, February 13, 2017 12:09 PM Subject: [ih] RAND Unix Port code I'm not sure if this news has spread widely yet, but I have just recovered a complete copy of the filesystem for the MIT-CSR Unix (the V6 Unix system at MIT-LCS on which most of the early TCP/IP work at MIT was done). I have found many treasures therein, including several early TCP/IP's. (More on this below.) I'm trying to make them all accessible through Unix source archives: http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl for public access. To do so, I need to make sure they are all OK to release publicly. (Back in the day, they were not, but that was because the underlying UNIX code was protected.) One of them is the BBN TCP/IP done by Mike Wingfield. It uses the RAND Port code, and I'm trying to work out who can tell me, or OK, the release of that code. Alas, Steven Zucker, the person who wrote the RAND report detailing the implementation of ports (and likely the actual author of the code) is no longer with us. Carl Sunshine wrote the overview document, but I don't know how to reach him - does anyone here? Does anyone else have any information on whether or not we can make this code public? Thanks! We do not, alas, have the source for the first BBN Unix TCP/IP - the one done by Jack Havery as, I am under the impression, a port of Jim Mathis' TIU code. We do, however, have the complete TIU source, and I hope to make that available too. Same question(s) about that: does anyone know how to reach Jim, or know anything about the releaseability of that code? (I seem to recall it was done under contract to DARPA, and so probably was open, but not all code written under a contract with the USG is necessarily public.) Thanks! Noel _______ internet-history mailing list internet-history@postel.org<mailto:internet-history@postel.org> http://mailman.postel.org/mailman/listinfo/internet-history Contact list-owner@postel.org<mailto:list-owner@postel.org> for assistance.