[ih] Significant milestones in the history of TCP/IP

[brian.e.carpenter at gmail.com (Brian E Carpenter)]

On 16/09/2015 06:17, Noel Chiappa wrote:
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> Anyway, here's the story: some VIPs were visiting the Lotus factory, and one
> of them looked closely at the Lotus F1 car's side rear-view mirrors (which
> were, like all F1 side mirrors, as small as possible for aerodynamic
> reasons). He uttered some comment about how small they were, whereupon one of
> the mechanics hanging about opined rather acerbicly that that didn't matter,
> because there was never anything there to see!

But of course there was: a Brabham (or something) about to lap the Lotus.

When designing IPv6, we didn't really take enough notice of the NATmobile
about to lap us.

I agree that it's a good idea to capture this history.
There are resources already, such as http://www.sobco.com/ipng/

    Brian