[ih] The history of "This" 0.0.0.0/8 network?

[Paul Ruizendaal]

>> Since the Internet went into production use in 1983
> 
> Depends on your definition of 'production'! :-) Yes, that was an important
> date (when NCP was turned off on the ARPANET). However, some of us were doing
> real use of the Internet well before that.

On top of that longer history that Noel refers to, it was also a kind of rolling start.
According to contemporary messages posted to the tcp/ip digest list:

- early october 1982, 47% of traffic was tcp/ip

- mid november 1982 it was 62% of traffic

- mid december 1982 it was 89% of traffic

Following the final switch over, it would seem that things mostly worked with the exception of mail forwarding which seems to have had a fair amount of problems (I may be wrong about this, but it is the impression I get from reading through the digest).

Paul


TCP/IP digest messages:
https://ftp.gnome.org/mirror/archive/ftp.sunet.se/pub/Internet-documents/rfc/museum/tcp-ip-digest/tcp-ip-digest.v1n24.1
https://ftp.gnome.org/mirror/archive/ftp.sunet.se/pub/Internet-documents/rfc/museum/tcp-ip-digest/tcp-ip-digest.v1n26.1
https://ftp.gnome.org/mirror/archive/ftp.sunet.se/pub/Internet-documents/rfc/museum/tcp-ip-digest/tcp-ip-digest.v1n28.1