[85815] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: And Now for Something Completely Different (was Re: IPv6 news)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gordon Cook)
Mon Oct 17 19:19:00 2005
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Cc: nanog@merit.edu
From: Gordon Cook <cook@cookreport.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 19:16:55 -0400
To: Fred Baker <fred@cisco.com>
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Wasn't Noel Chiappa Nimrods "father" ?
He explained his philosophy to me in an interview a decade ago as
well as why he believed that BGP was not sustainable.
yet here we are still chugging along
meanwhile back to your operational flows ;-)
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On Oct 17, 2005, at 5:58 PM, Fred Baker wrote:
> now, the proposal put forward lo these many moons ago to avoid any
> possibility of a routing change was, as I recall, Nimrod, and the
> Nimrod architecture called for variable length addresses in the
> network layer protocol and the use of a flow label (as in "IPv6
> flow label") as a short-form address in some senses akin to a
> virtual circuit ID.
