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Alexander Anderson McKenzie (born 1940), known as Alex McKenzie is an American computer scientist who was involved in the early development of the ARPANET and the Internet.

Alex Mckenzie worked at Bolt Beranek and Newman from 1967 to 1996. He was involved with development of Internet protocols and those of its precursor the ARPANET, starting in 1970. He also headed a project consulting to the US National Bureau of Standards (now NIST) to present the ideas developed in the Internet to the OSI project.

He was a co-author on 60 Internet RFCs (it seems: User:Alvestrand/RFC authors)

Interface Message Processor (IMP)

http://conservancy.umn.edu/handle/107489 http://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/107489/1/oh185am.pdf

http://alexmckenzie.weebly.com/aam3-technical-background.html

Met with international researchers at the first International Conference on Computer Communication held in Washington D.C. during October 1972. International Packet Network Working Group (INWG), could not agree with what would now be called a transport protocol. Resulted in the development of the competing OSI protocols.

McKenzie, A. A., Proceedings of the Fourth Data Communications Symposium, (IEEE Catalog No. 75CH1001-7 DATA) 5:1-6 (1975).

By 2011 he was living in Pensacola, Florida.

RFC 454 File Transfer Protocol February 16, 1973

Cerf, Vint G., McKenzie, A., Scantlebury, R., and Zimmerman, H., ACM Computer Communication Review, 6(1):63-89 (January 1976).

Completion Report, by Frank Heart, A. McKenzie, J. McQuillian, and D. Walden, BBN Report 4799, January 4, 1978, pp. III 46-48.

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