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Randy Bush
randy at psg.com
Sat Aug 8 05:53:50 PDT 2015
>>> Eventually an OSI connectionless mode was developed CLNP but never
>>> gained much popularity.
>>
>> today, most of the big backbones use is-is, which is over clnp
>
> Indeed - we could have easily ended up with TCP/UDP over CLNP (TUBA)
> as IPng, as it worked just fine...
>
> Ultimately, the concerns about potential change control arguments with ITU
> resulted using CLNP's address format for IPv6, only with a fixed length.
> (Those dealing with virtualization today will curse loudly someday when they
> discover that we actively chose to undo existing, working variable length
> addressing in defining IPv6...)
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