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[randy at psg.com (Randy Bush)]

>>> Eventually an OSI connectionless mode was developed CLNP but never
>>> gained much popularity.
>> 
>> today, most of the big backbones use is-is, which is over clnp
> 
> Indeed - we could have easily ended up with TCP/UDP over CLNP (TUBA)
> as IPng, as it worked just fine...
> 
> Ultimately, the concerns about potential change control arguments with ITU 
> resulted using CLNP's address format for IPv6, only with a fixed length. 
> (Those dealing with virtualization today will curse loudly someday when they 
> discover that we actively chose to undo existing, working variable length 
> addressing in defining IPv6...)

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