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@xxxxxxx] > Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 2:46 PM > To: Bob Braden > Cc: godwin@xxxxxxxx; ietf@xxxxxxxx; jnc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: 25th Anniversary! > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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@xxxxxxxxxx) 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Ietf mailing list > > Ietf@xxxxxxxx > > https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf > > > > - -- > ============================================================== > ========== > Jeffrey I. Schiller > MIT Network Manager > Information Services and Technology > Massachusetts Institute of Technology > 77 Massachusetts Avenue Room W92-190 > Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 > 617.253.0161 - Voice > jis@xxxxxxx > ============================================================== > ========== > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFFGXV88CBzV/QUlSsRAvyfAKC9SzoYPmZwjsl65W1I3kq5Dj3C0ACfTzHT > QPZzqDIeYzdMqcKF39dP8Sg= > =n1aJ > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > Ietf@xxxxxxxx > https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf > > _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf