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RE: 25th Anniversary!

2006-09-26 12:10:37
Or perhaps the lesson should be that planning for the transition is as 
important as the end state.

If you look at the big dig something like a quarter of their cost went into 
keeping the traffic movving while they moved the highway. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeffrey I. Schiller [mailto:jis(_at_)mit(_dot_)edu] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 2:46 PM
To: Bob Braden
Cc: godwin(_at_)isoc(_dot_)org; ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org; 
jnc(_at_)mercury(_dot_)lcs(_dot_)mit(_dot_)edu
Subject: Re: 25th Anniversary!

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And one of the lessons learned that night (as the person cutting over
0/6 (aka 10.0.0.6, MIT-MULTICS):

Don't do cutovers like this on January 1st!

                        -Jeff

On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 11:35:21AM -0700, Bob Braden wrote:

  *>
  *> There was a substantial discussion on the 
Internet-History mailing list
  *> (internet-history(_at_)postel(_dot_)org) of which date was the 
correct one for the
  *> creation of TCPv4/IPv4, earlier this year (at the end 
of March, if anyone's
  *> looking in the mailing-list archive). I don't know if 
we followed through
  *> looking in the minutes of early Internet Working Group 
meetings to determine
  *> exactly which one it was, but it seemed to have been 
at one in the fall of
  *> '77. FWIW, IEN's 40 and 41 (the first publication of 
the TCPv4/IPv4 spec)
  *> date from June of 1978.
  *>
  *> So we're pretty close to 30 years for TCPv4/IPv4 itself...
  *>
  *>  Noel
  *>

I believe that the birth date for the Internet (protocols) 
was Jan 1, 
1983, when the ARPAnet cut over from NCP to TCP/IP.

Bob Braden

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