rand classics writings of albert wohlstetter, 50s - 60s

paul baran: history, alternative approaches, and comparisons. packet switching and shannon's mouse in the maze | drawings, 1952

There was no guarantee that his mouse would ever traverse the entire maze, but the probability that it would was near unity.

... And because international traffic was relatively unimportant, and relatively insensitive to tariffs, it was not considered a major disadvantage if incompatibilities occur at frontiers, or with imported equipment. Indeed, calls across the EC's internal borders currently represent only some 5% of the total telephone revenue. | network ideas from europe -- the european community

public switched telephone network (PSTN), the public videotex networks, the packet switched data networks and the Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) ..."Transpac" (France Telecom), "IPSS" (British Telecom) and "DATEX-P" (Deutsche Bundespost)

osi reference model document: ISO/TC97/SC16, standard 7498, 1982; tc97 doesn't exist anymore nor sc16; ref maybe in ISO/IEC FDIS 9594-5 ...

available iso-standard papers | thanks for the pointer!

architel group: architel (for architecture for telecommunications; ISO 83 meeting the red book rfc806

the evolution of packet switching, lawrence g. roberts, 1978.

Organized in 1971 and originally known as the COST 11 Project and later as the European Informatics Network (EIN) is a multination-funded European research network. The project director is Derek Barber of NPL, one of the original investigators of packet switching in the U.K. Given freedom from the red tape of multinational funding, this project would have been one of the earliest pace-setters in packet networks in the world. As it happened, however, EIN was not operational until 1976.