[ih] The history of "This" 0.0.0.0/8 network?

[jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa)]

    > From: Dave Taht

    > One tidbit from that book I'd love to track down - it said paul buran
    > wrote 11?13? 14? - can't remember- *books* about packet processing, and
    > yet these have vanished from the internet.

Err, no:

  https://www.rand.org/about/history/baran-list.html

    > Whenever I struggle on something - like the whol bufferbloat thing - I
    > fantasize that scribbled in the margin of book 13 was the answer to my
    > problem.

Sadly, probably not.  He had the basic concepts right, but in a number of
areas - e.g. routing, and congestion control - there were depths he didn't
plumb. We have come a _long_ way in those areas since his work.

       Noel