[ih] The Internet Plan; was: Ken Olsen's impact on the Internet

[mfidelman at meetinghouse.net (Miles Fidelman)]

Bernie Cosell wrote:
> On 14 Feb 2011 at 14:00, Richard Bennett wrote:
>
>    
>> My recollection of the process of networking standards back in the late
>> 70s and early 80s was that TCP/IP was meant to be discarded in favor of
>> a more mature approach after some experience was gained with
>> internetworking.
>>      
> You mean akin to how SMTP, "Simple" mail transport protocol, was supposed
> to be replaced by something better when we figured out what email was
> going to be...:o)
>    
I'm always amused by the way X.500 disappeared in favor of LDAP 
("Simple" and "Light Weight" seem to generally win vis over-engineered. :-)

Miles

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