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Yes, Jon Postel made the Internet's waist narrow! (according to Van Jacobsen) http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2022/03/backlog-arch.html#jon-postel-made-the-inter
by chubot 4y ago
Yes, Jon Postel made the Internet's waist narrow! (according to Van Jacobsen)
http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2022/03/backlog-arch.html#jon-postel-made-the-internets-waist-narrow http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2022/03/backlog-arch.html#jon-p...
- ggm 4y agoSteve Deering gave a talk on the waist in the hourglass a few years back. https://www.ietf.org/proceedings/51/slides/plenary-1/index.html https://www.ietf.org/proceedings/51/slides/plenary-1/index.h...
- chubot 4y agoYes I used one of his diagrams in the previous post: The Internet Was Designed With a Narrow Waist https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2022/02/diagrams.html https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2022/02/diagrams.html Through writing that I also found that the "narrow waist" idea and metaphor comes from Postel himself (see the appendix). This doesn't seem to be widely acknowledged, and others cite various non-Postel RFCs, but it's fairly clear in Jacobsen's telling (and he was there)
- marttt 4y agoI remembered that post of yours. Thanks for this.