[ih] History question

[Brian E Carpenter]

RFC 791, page 7 (September 1981):

    "Care must be taken in mapping internet addresses to local net
     addresses; a single physical host must be able to act as if it were
     several distinct hosts to the extent of using several distinct
     internet addresses.  Some hosts will also have several physical
     interfaces (multi-homing)."

That text was also in RFC 760, a.k.a. IEN 128, and in IEN 111 (August 1979). It was completely absent in IEN 28 (February 1978). So I guess the answer to John is "between February 1978 and August 1979."

Regards/Ngā mihi
    Brian Carpenter

On 08-Sep-26 05:38, John Day via Internet-history wrote:
> When and who brought the multihoming question to general discussion?
> 
> When was it first recognized as an issue, even if there was no real discussion about a solution?
> 
> Take care,
> John Day