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Yes 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:/
by chubot 4y ago
Yes 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.