Re: Comments on draft-ohta-multi6-8plus8-00.txt

[Eliot Lear <lear@cisco.com>]

I think Noel's right.  I remember Dave discussing something like this in 
Amsterdam in '93.

Eliot


Noel Chiappa wrote:
>     > From: Brian E Carpenter <brc@zurich.ibm.com>
>
>     > There should be an acknowledgement here to Mike O'Dell, who invented
>     > both the name and the original 8+8 proposal. 
>
> My memory may be failing here, but IIRC it was Dave Clark (in a long email
> message to some mailing list - the IPv6 or Big-I lists, maybe?) who first came
> up with the concept of splitting the IPv6 address field into two halves, for
> location and identity.
>
> I think the main think Mike added, in coming up with GSE, was the concept that
> the border routers would fill in the high order parts of the locator portion.
>
> 	Noel