DoD IP Space

Mel Beckman mel at beckman.org
Mon Feb 15 17:28:16 UTC 2021


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 at kjtd.net> wrote:


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

On Feb 11, 2021 8:51 PM, Michael Thomas <mike at 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


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