Any sign of supply chain returning to normal?

Masataka Ohta mohta at necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp
Sun Apr 24 09:04:06 UTC 2022


Randy Bush wrote:

> i suspect that, in years of overabundant late stage capitalism, folk
> went nuts.  and we are now paying for it.  one of my fave quotes
> 
>      I thought of it in a slightly different way--like a space that we
>      were exploring and, in the early days, we figured out this
>      consistent path through the space: IP, TCP, and so on.  What's been
>      happening over the last few years is that the IETF is filling the
>      rest of the space with every alternative approach, not necessarily
>      any better.  Every possible alternative is now being written down.
>      And it's not useful.  -- Jon Postel

And Steve Deering agreed with Jon saying "Exactly".

That's so funny because the statement was published in Oct. 1998
and the first rfc on IPv6 was published in Dec. 1995.

							Masataka Ohta


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