"UCLA was the obvious choice for the first node on the . When Ivan Sutherland was in charge of IPTO, ARPA had funded a networking experiment to link IBM computers in three of the University's departments. UCLA had also played an important role in specifying the measurement software that BBN implemented in each IMP. That, coupled with Kleinrock's work on communications networks, which was so important for Larry Roberts's plans, clinched it for UCLA. After all, who better than Kleinrock to understand what was going on when the packets started to flow? UCLA became the Network Measurement Centre, responsible for compiling statistics and analysing the net-work."