paul baran, rand papers on distributed communications donald watts davies, proposal for the development of a national communication service for on-line data processing, overview

i was warned it's hard to find useful material in geneva by going through old protocols on standardization, as most things get decided during coffee breaks and corridor talks. but as long as people write memos there is a little bit of hope.

recommended reading: donald davies historical notes on packet switching and a 1967 meeting of the ccitt "special study group a"

a paper that made it into hugo kirnbauer's "das elektron" 1967 and was highly discussed at its time is j.w. halina: data transmission - current trends and future prospects, a speech halina gave 1963 at aiee.

includes multiplexing, costs of data transfer, paper explosion due to computing and the question: who should read and write all this?