for air force network systems and communication | basic research in information science and technology for air force needs, 2006

They go beyond traditional “tactical,” which is oriented to the voice and to human users, and beyond traditional ad hoc networks.

european historical versions by donald davies |.uk, who coined the word packet - as some say and louis pouzin |.fr

In 1940 a milestone event, not well remembered until recently (Loveday 1977), took place at Dartmouth. Dr. George Stibitz of the Bell Telephone Laboratories demonstrated publicly for the first time, at the annual meeting of the American Mathematical Society, the remote use of a computer over a communications line. The computer was a relay calculator designed to carry out arithmetic on complex numbers. The terminal was a Model 26 Teletype. | thomas e kurz, basic 1978

ieee has a story on rough concensus and running code and the osi standards war" by andrew l. russell | ieee annals of the history of computing july-september 2006

less on europe and osi, but us centric.