[ih] [IP] OSI: The Internet That Wasn't

[John Day]

At 1:26 PM +0200 7/31/13, Dave Crocker wrote:
>On 7/31/2013 1:15 PM, John Day wrote:
>>No, it was not the OSI process.  All consensus processes have these
>>properties.
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>Obviously they don't, since the IETF did not used to display it (very often.)

That was when the IETF was much more homogeneous.  The greater the 
diversity, the wider the participation, the messier it gets.  This 
phenomena has been known for centuries.

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>>As to IPv6 turning out different, ahh soon they forget.  The ground
>>rules were set so that the answer had to be anything but CLNP.
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>Not prior to the Kobe blowup they weren't.  I'm not saying they 
>/were/ set up that way later; I'm saying they weren't for the period 
>I was referencing.
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>There was a vigorous and even healthy debate underway and I was 
>finding myself impressed that CLNP seemed to be holding up quite 
>well in my personal assessment of points on technical merit.
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>With Kobe, the IAB prematurely terminated the community debate.  The 
>community then exercised the tend-available form of appeal against 
>the IAB...

I agree. I was replying to Scott, I thought!  ;-)

John

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>Dave Crocker
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