Hi, 2003 is the 30th anniversary of the first drafts of the paper "A Protocol for Packet Network Intercommunication" by Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn. Jan 1 2003 is also the 20th anniversary of the target date (Jan 1 1983) for the cutover from the ARPANET protocol NCP to the Internet protocol suite TCP/IP. There should be celebration of these significant events in the development of the Internet. The following article appears in the current online Wired News: --- Wired: 02:00 AM Dec. 31, 2002 PT Happy Birthday, Dear Internet http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,57013,00.html By Justin Jaffe --- It is good to see there is some effort to acknowledge these important historic events. It was not that the cutover was seen as something that needed to be jammed down anyone's throats. But there were problems having adequate implementations for all operating systems used on the ARPANET in time for the cutover. If interested in more details you can see: http://www.columbia.edu/~rh120/other/tcpdigest_paper.txt Take care. Jay