In message <20151001232613.GD123100@rootmail.cc.le.ac.uk>, Matthew Newton writes:
On Thu, Oct 01, 2015 at 10:42:57PM +0000, Todd Underwood wrote:
it's just a new addressing protocol that happens to not work with the rest of the internet. it's unfortunate that we made that mistake, but i guess we're stuck with that now (i wish i could say something about lessons learned but i don't think any one of us has learned a lesson yet).
Would be really interesting to know how you would propose squeezing 128 bits of address data into a 32 bit field so that we could all continue to use IPv4 with more addresses than it's has available to save having to move to this new incompatible format.
:-)
Matthew
Additionally it is now a OLD addressing protocol. We are about to see young adults that have never lived in a world without IPv6. It may not have been universally available when they were born but it was available. There are definitely school leavers that have never lived in a world where IPv6 did not exist. My daughter will be one of them next year when she finishes year 12. IPv6 is 7 months older than she is. Some of us have been running IPv6 in production for over a decade now and developing products that support IPv6 even longer. We have had 17 years to build up a universal IPv6 network. It should have been done by now. Mark
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