On 20 Mar 2022, at 5:09 AM, Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp> wrote:
However, as William Allen Simpson wrote:
Then, the powers that be declared that IPv6 should have 128-bit
addresses, and a host of committees were setup with competing CLNP
(TUBA) co-chairs. They incorporated many ideas of CLNP and XNS that
were thought (by many of us) to be worthless, useless, and harmful.
Committee-itis at its worst.
IAB hideously striked back to make IPv6 something a lot worse than
CLNP and XNS.
Alas, the above characterization doesn’t even come close to the actual history of IPng –
- There was an open call for proposals.
- We had many submissions: Nimrod, PIP, SIP, TUBA, IPAE, CATNIP (TP/IX), ...
- SIP absorbed IPAE, and then PIP merged with SIP to form SIPP
- Three final proposals CATNIP, TUBA, SIPP
- Chicago Big-10 workshop did final review and recommended SIPP, only using 128-bit “NSAP-like” addresses
(a document which probably should be required reading for those characterizing the history of IPv6)
FYI,
/John