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• Computer History Museum "Computer Pioneer Robert Kahn with Ed Feigenbaum." YouTube. Jan. 9, 2007. (April 23, 2010)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3uTKs9XZyk
• Congressional Digest. "Internet History: From ARPANET to Broadband." February 2007. pp. 35 - 37, 64.
• Hauben, Ronda. "From the ARPANET to the Internet." Columbia University. June 23, 1998. (April 26, 2010) http://www.columbia.edu/~rh120/other/tcpdigest_paper.txt
• Information Sciences Institute. "Internet Protocol." September 1981. (April 26, 2010) http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc791.txt
• Opus One. "What is IPv6?" (April 27, 2010) http://www.opus1.com/ipv6/whatisipv6.html
• THINK project. "A Technical History of the ARPANET." The University of Texas at Austin. (April 26, 2010) http://userweb.cs.utexas.edu/users/chris/nph/ARPANET/ScottR/arpanet/index.htm