Subject: Re: Backwards compatibility myth [Re: Last Call: <draft-weil-shared-transition-space-request-14.txt>]

From: [email-masked] (Noel Chiappa)
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:45:28 -0500 (EST)

> From: [email-masked] (Noel Chiappa)

    > Ironically, TCP/IP had variable length addresses put in _twice_, and
    > they were removed both times!

Sigh, another correction for the record: it was _three_ times!!! Early
versions of IPv4 (IEN-28, confusingly titled "Draft Internetwork Protocol
Specification: Version 2" - it was actually somewhere between 3.1 and 4;
then IEN-41) also had them; they were removed shortly thereafter (IEN-44).

(Excuse me if I'm having a hard time keep track of this; they got put in
and taken out so many times my head is spinning... :-)

	Noel