[ih] Hourglass model question

Joe Touch touch at strayalpha.com
Wed Jul 3 11:10:24 PDT 2019


On 7/3/2019 8:30 AM, Scott O. Bradner wrote:
> as far as I know - the first use of an IP based hourglass was in Realizing the Information Future (1994) 
> https://www.nap.edu/catalog/4755/realizing-the-information-future-the-internet-and-beyond

I recall seeing IP variants long before this; it would be odd for
anything truly new to appear in any of these sort of "promotional
reports" (I have a whole series in my office, FWIW). Those reports were
more effective in getting departments renamed (to match the report
heading) than anything else.

Joe




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