<html><head></head><body><p dir="ltr">The available CLNP address format (GOSIP aka DECNET phase V) was fixed length however. And would have been a privacy nightmare.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Sent from phone<br>
Brian</p>
<div class="gmail_quote" >On 8 Aug 2015, at 13:54, John Curran <<a href="mailto:jcurran@istaff.org" target="_blank">jcurran@istaff.org</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="blue">On Aug 8, 2015, at 6:46 AM, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote:<br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #ad7fa8; padding-left: 1ex;"> Eventually an OSI connectionless mode was developed CLNP but never<br> gained much popularity.<br></blockquote> <br> today, most of the big backbones use is-is, which is over clnp<br></blockquote><br>Indeed - we could have easily ended up with TCP/UDP over CLNP (TUBA)<br>as IPng, as it worked just fine...<br><br>Ultimately, the concerns about potential change control arguments with ITU <br>resulted using CLNP's address format for IPv6, only with a fixed length. <br>(Those dealing with virtualization today will curse loudly someday when they <br>discover that we actively chose to undo existing, working variable length <br>addressing in defining
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