Internet Experiment Notes (IENs) were a series of technical notes created in the early days of the
Internet, during the early development of the
TCP/IP protocol suite.After
DARPA began the Internet program in earnest in
1977, in order to realize the concepts laid out by
Bob Kahn and
Vint Cerf some years before, the project members decided they needed a document series. Since
Requests for Comments (RFCs) were considered the province of the
ARPANET project, and the Network Working Group (NWG) which defined the
network protocols used on it, the members of the Internet project decided to create their own separate series of documents, which were to be much like the RFC's.
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INTERNET ENGINEERING NOTES. IEN