18 Jun
2018
18 Jun
'18
3:16 p.m.
On 17 Jun 2018, at 18:58, Noel Chiappa <jnc(a)mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:
One of two things was going to be true of the 'Internet' (that name
didn't
exist then, but it's a convenient tag): i) It was going to be a failure (in
which case, it probably didn't matter what was done, or ii) it was going to be
a success, in which case that 32-bit field was clearly going to be a crippling
problem.
There's a third possibility: if implementation of the specification is too
complicated it will fail, while if the implementation is simple enough it may succeed, in
which case the specification which allowed the simple implementation will eventually
become a problem.
I don't know whether IP falls into that category, but I think a lot of things do.
--tim