LOL! Well, Mike says “definitely at least 1993”, whereas Wikipedia itself says that Wikipedia cannot be trusted. Mike, to my knowledge, has never admitted being wrong. So I’m going with Mike :)

I think it was Al Gore who first proposed IPv6, right Mike? :)

 -mel beckman

On Feb 15, 2021, at 6:36 AM, Kenneth J. Dupuis <ken@kjtd.net> wrote:


1995? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6

On Feb 11, 2021 8:51 PM, Michael Thomas <mike@mtcc.com> wrote:


On 2/11/21 5:41 PM, Izaac wrote:
>
>> IPv6 restores that ability and RFC-1918 is a bandaid for an obsolete protocol.
> So, in your mind, IPv4 was "obsolete" in 1996 -- almost three years
> before IPv6 was even specified?  Fascinating.  I could be in no way
> mistaken for an IPv4/NAT apologist, but that one's new on me.

ipv6 was on my radar in the early 90's. it was definitely at least 1993,
maybe earlier.

Mike