Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!ISI.EDU!dlynch From: dlynch@ISI.EDU (Dan Lynch) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: IP and Coloured Book Software in the UK Message-ID: Date: 23 Jun 91 17:32:10 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Distribution: world Organization: The Internet Lines: 15 The magic cutover date was 1/1/83. No more NCP. Just TCP/IP. Some bureaucrat chose the date. Dozens of us system managers found ourselves on a New Year's Eve trying to pull off this massive cutover. We had been working on it for over a year. There were hundreds of programs at hundreds of sites that had to be developed and debugged. Never again in history will there be such a clean cutover. The transition from TCP/IP to anything new will be done very slowly. I think that is a good idea. Dan PS. I'm the one who had the "I survived the TCP Transition" buttons made up. Made 500 of them and passed them out to the pioneers all over the globe. Save those buttons, gang!