<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Yes, address plans belong to layers not to protocols. But then IP didn’t learn that lesson either.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Aug 8, 2015, at 10:03, Brian E Carpenter <<a href="mailto:brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com" class="">brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><p dir="ltr" class="">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" class="">Sent from phone<br class="">
Brian</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 8 Aug 2015, at 13:54, John Curran <<a href="mailto:jcurran@istaff.org" target="_blank" class="">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 <<a href="mailto:randy@psg.com" class="">randy@psg.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""><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 class=""> gained much popularity.<br class=""></blockquote> <br class=""> today, most of the big backbones use is-is, which is over clnp<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Indeed - we could have easily ended up with TCP/UDP over CLNP (TUBA)<br class="">as IPng, as it worked just fine...<br class=""><br class="">Ultimately, the concerns about potential change control arguments with ITU <br class="">resulted using CLNP's address format for IPv6, only with a fixed length. <br class="">(Those dealing with virtualization today will curse loudly someday when they <br class="">discover that we actively chose to undo existing, working variable length <br class="">addressing in defining
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