--On Thursday, 18 December, 2008 14:15 -0500 Thomas Narten
<narten@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> John C Klensin <john-ietf@xxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> As an exercise that I don't have time to conduct, it would be
>> interesting to see how much of the text of the original IP
>> specification is still present in the IPv6 one... and that was
>> only 20 years and may, in retrospect, have involved too few
>> substantive changes.
>
> I wouldn't spend a lot of time on such an exercise. I'd be very
> surprised if there is ANY common text. All the documents I am
> aware of were written from scratch.
That is pretty much what I expected. To the extent to which we
can extrapolate from it (and I think we can), Larry's concern
about copyright-blockage on such work is probably not
significant.
john
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