[ih] When did "32" bits for IP register as "not enough"?

[Michael Kjörling]

On 15 Feb 2019 16:29 -0500, from vint at google.com (Vint Cerf):
> 6. MOSAIC hits about 1993 followed by Netscape Communications and its IPO.

I'm curious about this point of yours. Why do you say that this was an
important deciding factor in the choice between OSI vs TCP/IP, or in
the commercialization of TCP/IP over OSI?

I'm not saying that the Web was unimportant -- it absolutely was, and
is (just look at how many people think that the Internet _is_ the
World Wide Web) -- but is there something about the protocols which
makes it much easier to run HTTP over TCP/IP than over OSI? Or was it
just the fact that by the time the Web came about, the world was
somewhat firmly established in the TCP/IP camp and so it became a
natural choice to focus on running HTTP over TCP/IP?

I'll readily admit that my knowledge of the OSI stack is limited at
best.

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