A year ago, at a private meeting at Warburg Pincus, I heard Nick Gall of the Meta Group give a great talk on why TCP/IP is like container shipping — both were initiated about thirty years ago, revolutionized their industries, and have proven surprisingly robust while other technologies have had to be updated every few years. I was so impressed that I invited Nick to give the same talk at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention. Glad to see that ZDnet blogged the talk. Nick gives us some great insight into just why TCP/IP is so durable.
