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'''Louis Pouzin''' is the computer scientist who decided that the way to build a network was to accept that the [[data network]] itself was basically somewhat unreliable, and then move ''all'' the responsibility for reliability into the hosts on the ends (unlike in the [[ARPANET]], where that responsibility was borne by the [[Interface Message Processor|IMPs]]). The network that he and his team built, using this approach, [[CYCLADES]], laid the technical groundwork for the [[Internet]].

==Advantages==

That approach, of having the network provide only ''unreliable'' [[packet]]s (sometimes called [[datagram]]s) has several huge advantages:

* The network itself is much simpler, because it does not have to go to any extra work to ''guarantee'' that data is not lost. It just does its best (hence another name for the service it provides, 'best effort'), and focuses on its main job - moving data around.

* This approach allows ''all'' the intermediate [[packet switch]]es ([[router]]s) in the overall network to carry ''no'' [[state]] about the [[connection]]s travelling through them. This has been the single biggest reason why the Internet has been able to grow ('scale', in engineering jargon) to the stupendous size it has.

==External links==

* [https://walden-family.com/bbn/iria.html Consulting in Paris] - Louis learns about the ARPANET

[[Category: People]]

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−	'''Louis Pouzin''' is the French computer scientist who made ''the'' key technical step in [[data network]]ing between the ideas of the [[ARPANET]] and those of the later [[Internet]]. The network that he and his team built, using this new approach, [[CYCLADES]], laid the technical groundwork for the Internet.	+	'''Louis Pouzin''' is the French computer scientist who made ''the'' key technical step in [[data network]]ing between the ideas of the [[ARPANET]] and those of the later [[Internet]]: moving reliability mechanisms into the [[host]]s, allowing the network (and its constituent [[packet switch]]es) to be unreliable - and thereby simpler and faster.
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		+	The network that he and his team built, using this new approach, [[CYCLADES]], laid the technical groundwork for the Internet.

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−	'''Louis Pouzin''' is the computer scientist who ~~decided that the way to build a network was to accept that~~ the [[data network]] ~~itself was basically somewhat unreliable, and then move ''all''~~ the ~~responsibility for reliability into the hosts on the ends (unlike in~~ the [[ARPANET]]~~, where that responsibility was borne by~~ the [[~~Interface Message Processor\|IMPs~~]]). The network that he and his team built, using this approach, [[CYCLADES]], laid the technical groundwork for ~~the [[Internet]].~~	+	'''Louis Pouzin''' is the French computer scientist who made ''the'' key technical step in [[data network]]ing between the ideas of the [[ARPANET]] and those of the later [[Internet]]. The network that he and his team built, using this new approach, [[CYCLADES]], laid the technical groundwork for the Internet.
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−	* The network itself is much simpler, because it does not have to go to any extra work to ''guarantee'' that data is not lost. It just does its best (hence another name for the service it provides, 'best effort'), and focuses on its main job - moving data around.
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−	* This approach allows ''all'' the intermediate [[packet switch]]es ([[router]]s) in the overall network to carry ''no'' [[state]] about the [[connection]]s travelling through them. This has been the single biggest reason why the Internet ~~has been able to grow ('scale', in engineering jargon) to the stupendous size it has~~.

	==External links==		==External links==