Re: Cluster Addressing and CIDR

["J-F C. (Jefsey) Morfin" <[e-mail]>]

Louis, some old pre-IETFquestions. What was "cata" standing for?

FYI this thread started asking to remember Carl-Herbert Rokitansky's 
Cluster Adressing Scheme. He then recalled that IETF had probably orignated 
in 1984 in UK. in a meeting he attented. jfc

PS. Vint, when was the name Internet used for the first time? When you say 
'multiple net systems' did  you refer by then to mutiple networks, to 
multiple technologies or both?

At 00:06 15/01/03, vinton g. cerf wrote:
>"catanet" was a term invented by Louis Pouzin, a French researcher 
>responsible for the design and construction of the Cyclades system that 
>included the Cigale pure datagram network. The term appeared in Internet 
>Experiment Note #48 but as I recall was not used thereafter, when the term 
>"Internet" became the preferred description name of the multiple network 
>system sponsored by ARPA.
>
>Vint
>
>At 11:21 PM 1/13/2003 -0500, Richard J. Sexton  Ph.D. J.D. wrote:
> >How does this relate to Postels catanet work?
>
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