18 Mar
2022
18 Mar
'22
4:31 p.m.
On Fri, 2022-03-18 at 13:17 -0700, Michael Thomas wrote:
We weren't part of the wars. What I saw was what eventually became ipv6 and I remember talking to one of my coworkers about how hard he thought it would be to implement. He concurred that he didn't think it would be any big deal. One of our big issues is that we didn't have anybody to interop with, that and nobody was asking for it unlike v4 features.
Classic Second System Effect, as described by Fred Brooks... in 1975. "The Mythical Man-Month" is a great book for remembering how we got here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-system_effect But as all you have said, here we are.