IPv6 woes - RFC

Thu Sep 16 15:33:31 UTC 2021

John Curran wrote:

> If by "design choices" you mean the tradeoffs accepted in selecting a
> particular candidate protocol and declaring victory, then I’d
> strongly disagree.

What actually happened is that SIP was chosen but modified
by IPng directorates to pretend, for political purposes, IPng
were a merger of all the proposals only to make the result
totally unusable, during which address length was extended
from 8B to 16B to accommodate so infamous XNS style auto
configuration.

						Masataka Ohta