And Now for Something Completely Different (was Re: IPv6 news)

Mon Oct 17 23:16:55 UTC 2005

Wasn't Noel Chiappa  Nimrods "father" ?

He explained his philosophy to me in an interview a decade ago as  
well as why he believed that BGP was not sustainable.

yet here we are  still chugging along

meanwhile back to your operational flows  ;-)

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On Oct 17, 2005, at 5:58 PM, Fred Baker wrote:

> now, the proposal put forward lo these many moons ago to avoid any  
> possibility of a routing change was, as I recall, Nimrod, and the  
> Nimrod architecture called for variable length addresses in the  
> network layer protocol and the use of a flow label (as in "IPv6  
> flow label") as a short-form address in some senses akin to a  
> virtual circuit ID.