[ih] IETF as a Pentagon thing

[Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim]

Hello:

I am just curious about the transition of IETF to become 
an "independent entity" from the USG, especially Pentagon.

As in 1988, in a thread discussing "Running out of Internet 
addresses?", Vint Cerf (ISI) "informed" Jon Postel (ISI)
that:
  "I sure hope so - several IETF working groups are 
   addressing aspects of this problem. It is conceivable 
   that a restructuring of the Class C address space, 
   combined with an area routing strategy might relieve 
   some of the scaling problems. I don't want to second 
   guess the IETF teams, though."
How/what was the IETF in 1988?

Hans-Werner Braun wrote in 1992, 
  "[...] I remember that I (and may be others) had a bit 
   of a hard time to convince the IETF to allow the NSFNET 
   constituents to be represented. It finally resulted 
   in a small group of people meeting with Mike Corrigan 
   in the Pentagon to discuss the issue to allow for the 
   broadening of the INENG/IETF. [...]"

It is not clear when, but I guess it was around 1986-1988.


regards,

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