[ih] Any suggestions for first uses of "e-mail" or "email"?

[Brian E Carpenter]

The available CLNP address format (GOSIP aka DECNET phase V) was fixed length however. And would have been a privacy nightmare.

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   Brian



On 8 Aug 2015 13:54, at 13:54, John Curran <jcurran at istaff.org> wrote:
>On Aug 8, 2015, at 6:46 AM, Randy Bush <randy at psg.com> wrote:
>
>>> 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...)
>
>/John
>
>
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