some documents are back to the surface: european informatics networking.

GESCHEHEN zu Brûssel am dreiundzwanzigsten November neunzehnhunderteinundsiebzig.
DONE at Brussels on the twenty-third day of November in the year one thousand nine hundred and seventy-one. | treaty EIN

germany it seems was not amused and waited until 1976 to sign the treaty.

also the iiasa papers of alexandr butrimenko are freed from dust. nicenicenice.

butrimenko and ulrike sichra (both from iiasa) were describing how to implement pay function and priority service for packet switched networks in 1976.

the main idea arises from the the assumption that between the authorities responsible for running the network and the users, an agreement on charges can be achieved depending on the performance-delivery time | priorities and pay function routing for a packet switched network

the ptts must have loved it.