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NCP -- Network Control Program
The Network Control Protocol (NCP) was the first standard networking protocol on the ARPANET. NCP was finalized and deployed in December 1970 by the Network Working Group (NWG), led by Steve Crocker, also the inventor of the Request For Comments. NCP standardized the ARPANET network interface, making it easier to establish, and enabling more and more DARPA sites to join the network. In October 1971, every site on the ARPANET logged into every other site (with one exception) over NCP at a meeting at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. By the end of 1971 there were fifteen sites using NCP on the young Internet:
Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf later built on NCP to develop the standard TCP/IP networking protocol still used on the Internet today. RFC's. Requests For Comments describing NCP are listed below:
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