John Romkey

John Romkey
Born	United States
Known for	PC/IP, Netwatch

John Romkey and Donald W. Gillies^[1] developed the first in the industry TCP/IP stack for IBM PC^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5] in 1983. Romkey founded FTP Software, a commercial TCP/IP stack provider in 1986. Romkey also authored the first network analyzer Netwatch, predating Network General Sniffer. He also served on IAB. Romkey is currently an owner of Blue Forest Research, a consulting company.

While at MIT John Romkey authored the first TCP/IP stack for MS-DOS. He was the founder of FTP Software company which provided commercial package for MS-DOS and MS Windows. With the advent of Microsoft TCP/IP stacks starting with Windows 95, FTP Software as well as all other commercial TCP/IP stacks providers were driven out of business.

Publications

mit.edu: The desktop computer as the network participant 1985 (IEEE Journal on selected areas of communications Vol. SAC-3. no. 3, May 1985)
ietf.org: Report of the IAB Workshop on Internet Information Infrastructure, October 12-14, 1994
ietf.org: A nonstandard for transmission of IP datagrams over serial lines: SLIP (1988)

References

↑ 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.
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