> On Sunday, November 07, 2004 12:44 PM, Dave Crocker wrote > To: Noel Chiappa; ietf@xxxxxxxx > Cc: jnc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: IPv4 consumption statistics and extrapolations > > On Sun, 7 Nov 2004 12:00:09 -0500 (EST), Noel Chiappa wrote: > > > > *IPv6 only exists because of a previous round of FUD about > > > > IPv4 address exhaustion* - one spread by the proponents of > > > > yet another protocol that was going to "replace" IPv4 - i.e. > > > > CLNP. > > .... > > Kobe came roughly a year after work was done on considering the > problem of rapidly depleting address space availability. There was > plenty of basis for the concern about address space. On this point, Dave is correct. The IAB meeting occurred during the INET conference in June 1992 in Kobe. The issue of IP address exhaustion had already been debated on several occasions. You can check the minutes of the IAB meetings at http://www.iab.org/documents/iabmins/. As Noel mentions, he was actually one of the first to point the issue of address space exhaustion, as mentioned in the minutes of the October 1990 meeting. > And CLNP was not proposed until well into that process. Actually, if you go look at the minutes, you find that the subject of OSI transition, coexistence and competition was very much in people minds. In the same October 1990 during which Noel presented the issue of address exhaustion, the IAB also spent a lot of time discussing NSAP addressing. The next meeting, in January 1991, featured a discussion of whether TCP and OSI will continue in parallel or whether one will replace the other. The proposal in 1992 to base an IPng on CLNP was pretty much a continuation of these discussions, and it did indeed come in quite early in the process. -- Christian Huitema _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf