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

[Scott W Brim <swb@employees.org>]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 11:15:32AM -0500, Noel Chiappa allegedly wrote:
> 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.

Copying what was done with NSAPs?  I don't think anyone could lay claim
to this idea in the last 20 years.  However, 

> 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.

I think so too.  We could ask him.