[129621] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Did Internet Founders Actually Anticipate Paid,
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fred Baker)
Tue Sep 14 03:17:49 2010
From: Fred Baker <fred@cisco.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=JD+uQ_ChCs5cHhFpV-GyhacDJFjkE65B-K+2Z@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 02:17:25 -0500
To: Michael Dillon <wavetossed@googlemail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sep 14, 2010, at 1:37 AM, Michael Dillon wrote:
> And let's not forget that the article which came up with the title of =
this thread equates IETF with "Internet Founders" and is talking about =
the 1990s and the introduction of diffserv.
If that's the case, the proceedings of ISOC's INET '98 should be of =
interest. The speakers were not working in the IETF, but they were very =
aware of IETF proceedings at the time.
Basically, the IETF was formalizing a tool that had been in various =
products in various forms for a decade or more already, in response to =
specific requests from operators, and which the operators wanted to have =
in a generalized fashion from any vendor. These guys were commenting on =
the expected use of the tool by the operators.
http://www.isoc.org/inet98/proceedings/3e/3e_2.htm=
