On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 09:32:35AM -0700, Philip Nesser wrote:
> IIRC the phrase started out as "IP over Everthing" back in the days when
> there was still competing network protocols and we were writing standards
> for IP over Infiniband, IP over IEEE <blah>, etc since there were
> "competing" protocols X.25 over blah, IPX over blah, CNLP over blah,
> etc... and network adaptors were still fairly pricey. At some point in the
> mid-90s the emphasis started to shift and we started thinking of almost
> anything being an "end point" and it became more "IP on Everything".
Of course, there's also "IP by carrier pigeon".
"IP on/over carrier pigeon" just doesn't sound right. :-)
- Ted
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