Starting in August 1990 the NSFNET backbone supported the OSI Connectionless Network Protocol ( CLNP ) in addition to TCP / IP . However, CLNP usage remained low when compared to TCP / IP.
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Three types of solutions were proposed : introduce Classless Inter-Domain Routing ( CIDR ) to mitigate the problem, design the next version of IP ( IPv7 ) based on CLNP ( ConnectionLess Network Protocol ) and continue the research into naming, addressing and routing.