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Re: [tlug] Re: IPv6



On 2007-11-15 14:42 +1100 (Thu), Jim Breen wrote:

> However, compared to the traditional ways of building up network
> technologies and standards, the standout thing about the Internet
> is that it was "design lite". With the good old ISO/CCITT/etc. approach
> committees would have met for years and voluminous standards produced
> with more options than you could count before anything much was built.

About a decade and a half ago, Marshall Rose wrote a book about the
ISO-OSI stack, and subtitled it, "The Protocol of the '90s."

In the late 2000s, I find this very amusing, because I think it still
applies.

cjs
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