[ih] Ethernet, was Why TCP?

[William Sotomayor]

On Thu, 1 Sep 2016, Andrew G. Malis wrote:

> 
> On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 11:29 AM, Paul Vixie <paul at redbarn.org> wrote:
>       later on, DEC poured billions (that's like millions except with a "b")
>       of dollars into DECnet Phase V, proving after all that they, and not the
>       community, knew what the future of networking was going to look like.
>       (they should have saved the money so that Compaq could have it.)
> 
> 
> DECnet Phase V gave us IS-IS, which was later standardized by ISO and is now in wide use
> throughout the Internet. It’s probably the most popular intra-AS routing protocol in use today
> by Internet backbone providers. So it wasn’t a total waste. :-)

Not at all, in fact it seems to be getting some use in the data centre of 
all places by at least one vendor.

wfms