[ih] The Internet Plan; was: Ken Olsen's impact on the Internet

[Miles Fidelman]

Richard Bennett wrote:
> Right, there's always a lot of motivation for standards, especially in 
> networking where interoperability is job 1.
Well also in things like electrical connectors, nuts and bolts, .....
>
> My recollection of the process of networking standards back in the 
> late 70s and early 80s was that TCP/IP was meant to be discarded in 
> favor of a more mature approach after some experience was gained with 
> internetworking. Hence, shortcuts were taken with respect to things 
> like the IPv4 address and the reliance on the WKS convention that 
> everyone knew were sub-optimal at the time. But somehow this TCP/IP 
> successor standard that incorporated the acquired wisdom was never 
> developed.
>
> Why is that?
Perhaps because incremental evolutionary improvement tends to win out 
vis a vis over-engineering things?

Miles Fidelman

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