[ih] Ken Olsen's impact on the Internet

[Tony Li]

> As for addressing and routing, the OSI world eventually produced something useful for /interior/ routing, but never for inter-organization routing.  So whatever the claimed concerns, after 15 years of effort, the OSI world produced nothing viable for Internet scale addressing or routing.  As with most OSI work, the deliverable of field utility was always two years from now.


This is absolutely correct for routing, but absolutely incorrect for addressing.  OSI mandated an addressing architecture that both aggregated and was variable length.  The Internet still hasn't learned this lesson and insists on a fixed length, non-scalable addressing scheme.  

Tony