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The Network Working Group seems to consist of Steve Carr of Utah, Jeff Rulifson and Bill Duvall at SRI, and Steve Crocker and Gerard Deloche at UCLA. Membership is not closed. It “seems to consist”! I say this is classic confusion because remember, these are people at completely different institutions working with each other at great distances and by the way they are INVENTING THE INTERNET so it’s not like they can all share a Trello board and Google Drive to stay in sync. In fact, Crocker himself has said “I remember having great fear that we would offend whoever the official protocol designers were” (quoted in Katie Hafner’s Where the Wizards Stay Up Late). They just assumed that the official designers were sitting at BB&N or some other east coast defense contractor, when really their own group was about as close to anything official as existed at the time. (View Highlight)