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Re: [RRG] GSE History
> From: RJ Atkinson <rja@extremenetworks.com>
Well, this isn't the Internet-history list, but there are a few early parts of
your timeline I'd like to clarify/expand on, before it becomes the accepted
history..
> IEN-1 notes that the way the "TCP Identity" is constructed creates
> issues with resilient multi-homing, mobility, et cetera.
IEN-1 didn't really have much impact; I don't think I'd even heard of it till
you uncovered it. (Perhaps that's because it was originally distributed only
on paper, to a very few people?) The thing that I think really started the
process was Jerry Saltzer's paper, later reprinted as RFC-1498. That made me
a big believer in separating location and identity, and I decided to
proselytize the idea inside the IETF (which I then did, with great vigour,
but to little immediate success - alas, I never cottoned onto 'provider
independence' as the thing that could really 'sell' it).
> IETF ROAD activities ~18 years ago re-cover much of the same ground as
> IEN-1.
Before (I think? I'm unclear on the exact timeline) ROAD, which didn't really
talk that much about separation of location/identity - it was more focussed on
address space depletion and routing - the place where I/L separation was
really discussed in the community was on the Big-Internet mailing list
(although I'm not really sure we had that term for it at that point).
> Dave Clark sends email proposing to split the IPv6 address into 2
> pieces
At one point I actually tried to track the 8/8 idea to its lair, to make sure
credit was given correctly, and a share of the credit for IPv6 8+8 also goes
to Bob Smart (who is the first person I found who had raised the idea, on the
SIPP mailing list, on 2 June, 1994) as well as to Dave Clark (who later
resuscitated the idea on the IPng list, on 11 January, 1995).
> forgive me, if, in moments, it sometimes feels rather like we are
> living in the movie "Ground Hog Day".
The question is, how many more times are we gonna have to watch it?
> With apologies in advance for the sundry details that I omitted in the
> interest of length .. and with good will towards all,
Understood.
Noel
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