Seminal Publications
September 01, 2007
Important papers, publications and books are listed with links on the left column to enable authors to comment through this post about interesting aspects and recollections of their work. If necessary a dedicated post can easily be created.
An interesting observation is that most of the seminal work around Ethernet was done at Xerox. The major influence from outside produced the CAT5 wiring and star topology for ease of installation and maintenance, and it is now the most common configuration for wired Ethernet.