[ih] History of IoT

[Brian E Carpenter]

On 14-Feb-23 11:45, Larry Masinter via Internet-history wrote:
> Look at the references for RFC 2324 (which might itself be the first IoT RFC not sure).

I don't see why not. Jon Postel always insisted that RFCs in that
must be completely implementable.

RFC 1673 doesn't really qualify, but it made clear the notion
of covering vast numbers of objects:

"The addressing scheme must have essentially an unlimited address
  space to encompass an arbitrarily large number of information
  objects."

In verbal discussions in the IPng directorate, there was certainly
talk of addressing every street lamp etc.

    Brian

> 
> I tried to find references for such things.
> 
> At the time PARC had an initiative Mark Weiser called Ubiquitous Computing— which involved networking lots of things— and might be a better name or at least more evocative of why you might want such a thing and a big address space and likely the justification of participation with IPv6.
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>> On Feb 13, 2023, at 12:01 PM, Michael Thomas via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
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>> much of a hack as the toaster.