Re: Off topic: Any one know of a good IPV6 reference book?

["H. Morrow Long" <morrow.long () yale edu>]

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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