john, fwiw your story matches what is left of my memory. one nuance
> That’s not to say that there wasn’t "IETF politics” involved, but > rather that such politics were expressed as enormous pressure to “make > a decision” my take was that cidr had done a lot to relieve the immediate technical pressure for the short term; but there was a deep fear that the industry press was stirring a major poolpah about the end of the internet due to ipv4 exhaustion. i.e. a seriously flawed technical compromise was pushed on us in reaction to a perception of bad press. i have learned that, when i am under great pressure to DO SOMETHING, it's time to step back, go make a cup of tea, and think. the ietf did not. and here we are, a quarter of a century later, still trying to clean up the mess. randy
