The Windows Sockets project had its origins in a Birds Of A Feather session held at Interop '91 in San Jose on October 10, 1991. A committee was established, and an intensive debate via email resulted in the creation of a first draft specification, which was largely based on submissions from JSB and NetManage. This draft, and issues arising from it, were debated at a committee meeting hosted by Microsoft in Redmond, WA on December 9, 1991. Following further email discussions, a working group was established to develop the specification into its current form.
The following people participated in the process as committee members, in working meetings, or in email review. The authors would like to thank everyone who participated in any way, and apologize in advance if we have omitted anyone.
Martin Hall (Moderator) JSB Corporation martinh@jsbus.com Mark Towfiq (Coordinator) Microdyne Corporation towfiq@microdyne.com Geoff Arnold Sun Microsystems, Inc. geoff@east.sun.com Alistair Banks Microsoft alistair@microsoft.com Carl Beame Beame & Whiteside beame@mcmaster,ca David Beaver Microsoft dbeaver@microsoft.com Amatzia BenArtzi NetManage, Inc. amatzia@netmanage.com Mark Beyer Ungermann-Bass mbeyer@ub.com James Van Bokkelen FTP Software jbvb@ftp.com Nelson Bolyard Silicon Graphics, Inc. nelson@sgi.com Pat Bonner Hewlett-Packard p_bonner@cnd.hp.com Isaac Chan Microsoft isaacc@microsoft.com Nestor Fesas Hughes LAN Systems nestor@hls.com Gary Gere Gupta ggere@gupta.com Bill Hayes Hewlett-Packard billh@hpchdpc.cnd.hp.com Hoek Law Citicorp law@dcc.tti.com Paul Hill MIT pbh@athena.mit.edu Graeme Le Roux Moresdawn P/L - Terry Lister Hewlett-Packard tel@cnd.hp.com Lee Murach Network Research lee@nrc.com David Pool Spry, Inc. dave@spry.com Brad Rice Age rice@age.com Allen Rochkind 3Com - Henry Sanders Microsoft henrysa@microsoft.com David Treadwell Microsoft davidtr@microsoft.com Miles Wu Wollongong wu@twg.com Boris Yanovsky NetManage, Inc. boris@netmanage.com J Allard Microsoft Corporation jallard@microsoft.com