12 myths about how the Internet works - Network World

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/112008-ietf-internet-myths.html?netht=rn_112408&nladname=112408

MINNEAPOLIS – Thirty years have passed since the Internet Protocol was  
first described in a series of technical documents written by early  
experimenters. Since then, countless engineers have created systems  
and applications that rely on IP as the communications link between  
people and their computers.

Here's the rub: IP has continued to evolve, but no one has been  
carefully documenting all of the changes.
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"The IP model is not this static thing," explains Dave Thaler, a  
member of the Internet Architecture Board and a software architect for  
Microsoft. "It's something that has changed over the years, and it  
continues to change."

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