As milestones go, the transition to TCP/IP was perhaps the most important event that would take place in the development of the Internet for years to come. After TCP/IP was installed, the network could branch anywhere; the protocols made the transmission of data from one network to another a trivial task. “To borrow a phrase,” Cerf said, “now it could go where no network had gone before.” An impressive array of networks now existed—from the ARPANET to TELENET to Cyclades. There were so many, in fact, that in an attempt to impose some order, Jon Postel issued an RFC assigning numbers to the
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