Backward Compatibility Re: 202401100645.AYC Re: IPv4 address block

Sat Jan 13 00:24:47 UTC 2024

I go into my cave to finish the todo list for the week, and I come out to
see Mr. Chen :
- Telling Randy Bush he should "read some history" on IPv6
- Implying that Vint Cerf ever said anything about EzIP

Fairly impressive sequence of self ownage.

On Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 5:46 PM Randy Bush <randy at psg.com> wrote:

> > Perhaps you are too young to realize that the original IPv6 plan was
> > not designed to be backward compatible to IPv4, and Dual-Stack was
> > developed (through some iterations) to bridge the transition between
> > IPv4 and IPv6? You may want to spend a few moments to read some
> > history on this.
>
> ROFL!!!  if there is anything you can do to make me that young, you
> could have a very lucrative career outside of the internet.
>
> hint: unfortunately i already had grey hair in the '90s and was in the
> room for all this, and spent a few decades managing to get some of the
> worst stupidities (TLA, NLA, ...) pulled out of the spec.  at iij, we
> rolled ipv6 on the backbone in 1997.
>
> randy
>
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