Re: rfc791 coming up to 40 years ... what to do (remember, celebrate, ...?)

Keith Moore <moore@network-heretics.com> Tue, 23 March 2021 21:05 UTC

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Subject: Re: rfc791 coming up to 40 years ... what to do (remember, celebrate, ...?)
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On 3/23/21 3:57 PM, Spencer Dawkins at IETF wrote:

> I'd like to see some observance like this. Another related day that 
> might serve was the TCP/IP Flag Day, when Arpanet stopped carrying 
> NCP, on January 1, 1983. 

Maybe the public Internet can start filtering advertisements for IPv4 
prefixes on the 40th anniversary of that date?

(ducks)

Keith