It's worth remembering that at one stage, the U.S.
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It's worth remembering that at one stage, the U.S. government "ordered" that the Internet move away from its conventional SMTP email standards (that reach back in many respects to the earliest ancestor ARPANET days) and replace it all with the horrifically complicated X.400 protocol stack. This transition never happened, because the network community pretty much en masse simply ignored the edict. Thank goodness.
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as someone who did OSI protocol conformance testing, i can't express just how glad i am that TCP/IP, SMTP, and other open standards won over OSI.
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And yet.. and yet..
Sometimes I wonder what timeline we would live in if rfc1347 had taken root in the crazy summer of 1992.
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@paul_ipv6 @jimcowie I recently saw an essay from someone who should know, suggesting that the IPv6 transition may never complete, nor would it necessarily be a big problem if this was the case. I tend to agree.
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i think v6 has uses and did fix some things v4 didn't handle.
in spite of my handle, not fully convinced that v4 will go completely away and be fully replaced by v6. some of the recent fru-fru in v6 working groups makes me ok with that.
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@lauren @paul_ipv6 @jimcowie
Geoff Huston? -
likely.
geoff is a really smart guy who really loves being devil's advocate and doing edgy conference talks.
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@paul_ipv6 @lauren @jimcowie This is the article that came to mind: https://blog.apnic.net/2024/10/22/the-ipv6-transition/
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@paul_ipv6 @lauren @jimcowie what doesn't make me OK with that is that some recent pro-v4 rhetoric very clearly is pushed by holders of large v4 blocks that capitalize on the artificial scarcity of that resource.
In a sense I don't care about v6 *except* that it doesn't have that same problem.
