[ih] IPv8...

[Michael Greenwald]

On 4/21/26 2:47 PM, Karl Auerbach via Internet-history wrote:
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> After we had become greatly deformed from banging our heads against IP 
> multicast routing management - and its myriad of failure cases - Dave 
> Cheriton and one of his students (all I remember is that one of his 
> initials was "H") came by with what we felt was a smart and 
> revolutionary idea - that perhaps IP multicast need not be all-members 
> but, rather, there could be a single source multicasting to its 
> members.  This made things so much easier and cleaner.  But by then 
> the fate of IP multicast was already beginning to be sealed by its 
> reputation as a nightmare to manage.

For what it's worth, the student was Hugh Holbrook (good memory --- 
*both* of his initials were "H"s!). SIGCOMM paper + thesis.