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

Sat Jan 13 00:40:49 UTC 2024

On Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 2:47 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
>

OMFG,  that just made my afternoon.  :D  :D
Someone calling Randy Bush "too young".

If Randy Bush is too young, the rest of us must still need our diapers
changed on a regular basis.  :P

Matt
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