Re: [fw-wiz] Off topic: Any one know of a good IPV6 reference book?

From: H. Morrow Long (morrow.long_at_yale.edu)
Date: 07/31/03

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    To: Christopher Hicks <chicks@chicks.net>
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 10:19:59 -0400

    Also, remember where the Internet and IPv4 were funded
    and nurtured out of in the first place: DARPA.

    H. Morrow Long

    Christopher Hicks wrote:
    > On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Joseph S D Yao wrote:
    >>And the US DOD seems to be spear-heading this particular revolution, eh?
    >>[No, you do NOT have to remind me of OSI networking and ADA. ;-)]
    >
    >
    > Oh no. I wasn't going to remind you of OSI networking, but certainly
    > remember ADA and one of the DOD big successes at popularizing technology -
    > COBOL. The DOD didn't manage to turn the world into a bunch of ADA
    > programmers. (C'est la vie.) But Grace Hopper (who in my experience is
    > well respected in the hacker community) was one of the "leading lights" on
    > the committee to create an interim langauge for doing DOD software
    > development that ended up producing COBOL. When the DOD succeeds they
    > succeed big and it can surprise technology advocates and international
    > petty tyrants, but that's getting even too OT for this list....

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