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

[John Day]

Yes, address plans belong to layers not to protocols.  But then IP didn’t learn that lesson either.


> On Aug 8, 2015, at 10:03, Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> The available CLNP address format (GOSIP aka DECNET phase V) was fixed length however. And would have been a privacy nightmare.
> 
> Sent from phone
>    Brian
> 
> On 8 Aug 2015, at 13:54, John Curran <jcurran at istaff.org <mailto: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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