John Romkey

John Romkey
John Romkey
Born	United States
Known for	PCIP, Netwatch

John Romkey, along with Donald W. Gillies,^[2] developed MIT PCIP, the first TCP/IP stack in the industry for MS-DOS on the IBM PC^[3]^[1]^[4]^[5] in 1983 while at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1986, Romkey founded FTP Software, a commercial TCP/IP stack provider. Romkey authored the first network analyzer, , predating the Network General Sniffer (see NetScout Systems). He served on the IAB. With Simon Hackett, Romkey connected the first appliance (a toaster) to the Internet.^[5] Romkey is currently one of the owners of Blue Forest Research, a consulting company.

FTP Software provided commercial third-party TCP/IP packages for MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows. With the advent of Microsoft's own free TCP/IP stack, codenamed "Wolverine" and first introduced as an optional extra for Windows for Workgroups 3.11, FTP Software was driven out of business, along with all the other commercial providers of TCP/IP stacks.

Publications[]

McCahill, M.; Romkey, J.; Schwartz, M.; Sollins, K.; Verschuren, T.; Weider, C. (November 1995). Report of the IAB Workshop on Internet Information Infrastructure, October 12–14, 1994. doi:10.17487/RFC1862. RFC 1862. Retrieved 2020-11-21.
Romkey, J. (June 1988). A nonstandard for transmission of IP datagrams over serial lines: SLIP. doi:10.17487/RFC1055. RFC 1055. Retrieved 2020-11-21.

References[]

^ ^a ^b Saltzer, Jerome H.; Clark, David D.; Romkey, John L.; Gramlich, Wayne C. (May 1985). "The Desktop Computer as a Network Participant". Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. IEEE. SAC-3 (3): 468–478. doi:10.1109/JSAC.1985.1146219. The desktop computer was the IBM Personal Computer attached to one of several local area networks: Ethernet, PRONET, and an RS-232 asynchronous serial line network. The collection of programs is known as PCIP.
^ Donald W. Gillies, "Improved network security with a trusted email relay", bachelor's thesis, MIT, June 1984
^ "About - romkey.com". 2011-02-17. Retrieved 2011-11-10.
^ TCP/IP
^ ^a ^b Aboba, Bernard Aboba (1993-12-18). "How PC-IP Came to Be, as told by, John Romkey". Internaut: an online supplement to "The Online User's Encyclopedia'". Archived from the original on 7 August 2011. Retrieved 19 September 2020. My involvement with PC-IP began when I was a freshman at MIT in 1981, and I needed a job to pay my tuition. I had used the ARPANET a little bit, and there was an advertisement for a job with Dave Clark and Jerry Saltzer at the Lab for Computer Science (LCS). I interviewed for the job and got it. They were working on a research project to see if TCP/IP could run on something as small as an IBM PC.... While I was at Epilogue, we created an Internet Toaster for Interop in 1990.

[S-C-R-G-PCIP-1] Saltzer, Jerome H.; Clark, David D.; Romkey, John L.; Gramlich, Wayne C. (May 1985). "The Desktop Computer as a Network Participant". Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. IEEE. SAC-3 (3): 468–478. doi:10.1109/JSAC.1985.1146219. The desktop computer was the IBM Personal Computer attached to one of several local area networks: Ethernet, PRONET, and an RS-232 asynchronous serial line network. The collection of programs is known as PCIP.

[2] Donald W. Gillies, "Improved network security with a trusted email relay", bachelor's thesis, MIT, June 1984

[3] "About - romkey.com". 2011-02-17. Retrieved 2011-11-10.

[4] TCP/IP

[Aboba-PCIP-Romkey-5] Aboba, Bernard Aboba (1993-12-18). "How PC-IP Came to Be, as told by, John Romkey". Internaut: an online supplement to "The Online User's Encyclopedia'". Archived from the original on 7 August 2011. Retrieved 19 September 2020. My involvement with PC-IP began when I was a freshman at MIT in 1981, and I needed a job to pay my tuition. I had used the ARPANET a little bit, and there was an advertisement for a job with Dave Clark and Jerry Saltzer at the Lab for Computer Science (LCS). I interviewed for the job and got it. They were working on a research project to see if TCP/IP could run on something as small as an IBM PC.... While I was at Epilogue, we created an Internet Toaster for Interop in 1990.

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