Su función básica, similar a la transmisión de paquetes, llamada CIGALE, era novedosa; sin embargo, proporcionaba un servicio poco confiable para producir datagramas ( palabra acuñada por Louis Pouzin al combinar dato y telegrama).
He had done some simulation of datagram networks, although he had not built any, and it looked technically viable.
The second inspiration was I like things simple.
I didn't see any real technical motivation to overlay two levels of end-to-end protocols.
I thought one was enough.” Un protocolo extremo-a-extremo construido por encima de CIGALE proporcionaba un servicio de transporte fiable, a partir del cual se construían sus aplicaciones.