Anarchy in the UK?

[Sam Wilson]

On 12 Dec 2012, at 16:54, Nick Hilliard wrote:

> On 12/12/2012 16:47, Sam Wilson wrote:
>> They chose IP because the US government gave it away for free, often
>> bundled with the OS of your choice.  The same was definitely not  
>> true for
>> the OSI stack.
>
> There were a lot of reasons, one of which was cost - it's never  
> good to
> start off with a billing model, then create a set of services and  
> finally a
> set of protocols to run the services on.

That was a good reason not to run OSI, but not for choosing IP per se.

> Other than that, I can think of no better way to create a living  
> hell for a
> certain segment of the population than to force quipu and pp down  
> their
> throats.  The horror! the horror!

DECnet phase V, anyone?

Sam


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