Where wizards stay up late
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Nothing offhand that I can share. But take a look at https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/281818.Where_Wizards_Sta...
> Contrary to the narrative of the internet being about sharing science, ARPANET was pushed by the DoD as a means of maintaining comms during nuclear war. [citation needed] Because according to Bob Taylor, who initially got the funding for what became ARPANET: > Taylor had been the young director of the office within the Defense Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency overseeing computer r…
> Exactly. IPv6 was developed in the ivory towers where it was still assumed that everyone wanted to be a full participant of the internet. IPv6 was developed in the open on mailing lists that anyone could subscribe to: The criteria presented here were culled from several sources, including "IP Version 7" [1], "IESG Deliberations on Routing and Addressing" [2], "Towards the Future Internet Archit…