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Re: IETF Logo Wear

Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Fri, 20 August 2010 14:21 UTC

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From: Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Philip Nesser <phil@nesser.com>
Subject: Re: IETF Logo Wear
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On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 09:32:35AM -0700, Philip Nesser wrote:
> IIRC the phrase started out as "IP over Everthing" back in the days when
> there was still competing network protocols and we were writing standards
> for IP over Infiniband,  IP over IEEE <blah>,  etc  since there were
> "competing" protocols  X.25 over blah,  IPX over blah, CNLP over blah,
> etc... and network adaptors were still fairly pricey.  At some point in the
> mid-90s the emphasis started to shift and we started thinking of almost
> anything being an "end point" and it became more "IP on Everything".

Of course, there's also "IP by carrier pigeon".

"IP on/over carrier pigeon" just doesn't sound right.  :-)

    	    	    	    	 	 - Ted

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