Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
The thing that's so incredible about IPv6 wasn't that it was thought up
and built and works. It was that it was thought up and built and worked
decades before we ran out of assignable IPv4 and really needed it.
Usually inventions like it are the result of a madcap crash at the
last minute and thrown together.
Ted
Since IPv6 is essentially just a re-implementation of IPv4 with larger
address fields (or should have been) I dont find it all that incredible.
Its such a better example of second system effect than the original that
the book needs to be rewritten.
Whats incredible is that they built a protocol to rescue the internet
from address scarcity which wasnt designed to be able to actually do
such in any meaningful way for yet more decades to come.
Joe
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