The Routing Over Large Clouds Mailing List Archive by date

["Eric W. Gray" <gray@ctron.com>]

Paul Ferguson wrote:
> 
> At 04:24 PM 5/28/96 -0500, Tim Salo wrote:
> 
> >
> >A number of NSF contracts and cooperative agreements specify that
> >CLNP as well as IP must be routed over the infrastructure in question.
> >
> 
> Thank goodness the NSF can't mandate Internet protocols anymore.
> 

Which raises an interesting point: with government sponsorship becoming
less significant as a driving force in the Internet, who are the paying
customers?

I'd say that it's a very good thing that most of IP's competition will
probably dry up and blow away with IPv6 (but, then, don't take overly
long in getting IPv6 out either...).

>
> For what its worth, a number of very large NSPs do use CLNP for
> Integrated IS-IS as their interior routing protocol. However, this
> has nothing in common with the NSF; it just happened to be the stable
> routing protocol implementation de jour.
> 
> - paul
> 
> >
> >Welcome to the multi-protocol Internet.
> >
> 
> Intranet sure. Internet? Nah.
>

I suspect that the mix of Intranet/Internet has changed since the NSF
was mandating Internet protocols.  Where would you like to bet most of
the technology investment is now?

> 
> - paul