V6 still not supported

Nathan Angelacos nangel at tetrasec.net
Fri Mar 18 20:31:49 UTC 2022


On Fri, 2022-03-18 at 13:17 -0700, Michael Thomas wrote:
> 
> > 
> We weren't part of the wars. What I saw was what eventually became ipv6
> and I remember talking to one of my coworkers about how hard he
> thought it would be to implement. He concurred that he didn't think it
> would be any big deal. One of our big issues is that we didn't have
> anybody to interop with, that and nobody was asking for it unlike v4
> features.

Classic Second System Effect, as described by Fred Brooks... in 1975. 
"The Mythical Man-Month" is a great book for remembering how we got
here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-system_effect

But as all you have said, here we are.


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