22 Oct
2021
22 Oct
'21
8:12 a.m.
On 10/22/21 14:03, Jens Link wrote:
I don't think it was overlooked or forgotten. More along
"We have always done it this way", "We had problems enabling IPv6 (ages ago)" or something else you can find on https://ipv6excuses.com/.
I think it's a combination of both... they tried back in the day, it broke, and they "parked" it for later. When Marketing and The World were happy to see that www.insert-favorite-content-url-here.com had AAAA and IPv6 PTR records, who cared whether boring, little-known FQDN's were remembered or not. And then, all the engineers moved on to some other gig, where they did better because, why not? Mark.