“I’ll be there to see old friends, to renew some old animosities, and to join in the jockeying for credit—of which there is plenty to go around,” Metcalfe wrote. “I’ll begin by making sure partygoers realize that most TCP/IP traffic is carried by Ethernet, which I invented . . . As the party peaks, I’ll see how much credit I can grab from Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn for the invention of internetworking . . . Failing that, I’ll see if I can smile my way into the group photo of the inventors of packet-switching.”
