[ih] Internet addressing history section

[internet-history at gtaylor.tnetconsulting.net (Grant Taylor)]

On 2/13/19 8:57 PM, Dave Taht wrote:
> I seem to find myself kind of lonely in wanting to discuss the competing 
> impact of netbui and ipx/spx before 2004 or so. I can't be the only one 
> who's primary intro to networking was via those protocols? They seem to 
> get short shrift today....

I'd be interested in hearing / reading such discussions.

Does the "Internet History" mailing list mean that it's Internet 
Protocol /centric/?  Or is it okay to segue into other protocols that 
(at least once upon a time) had large global network presence?  If the 
latter is the case, then I think IPX/SPX, NetBIOS (NetBEUI), Banyan 
VINES, SNA, AppleTalk, DECnet, you name it have some room to be 
discussed.  But that's based on an "if" that I'm not qualified to answer.

> Anyway, although I can add a lot more to the arpanet portion of the 
> history section, and probably will, my current working draft of the 
> history section of this document is now up here:
> 
> https://github.com/dtaht/ipv4-cleanup/blob/master/rfcs/draft-gilmore-taht-v4uniext.txt#L117

$ReadingList++

> Feel free to make suggestions for more (or less!) content, comment as to 
> my mental state, ancestry, naivety, and overall correctness of the cites - 
> I note that the last cite I added today was rfc1925, which really should 
> get cited more often.

;-)



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