> IPv6 dates back to 1997 and it really should have been adopted more urgently. I went to the NANOG meeting in October 1997. Many (most?) of the people who we

> IPv6 dates back to 1997 and it really should have been adopted more urgently. I went to the NANOG meeting in October 1997. Many (most?) of the people who were responsible for administering the core routers using Internet Protocol at the time were there. During one talk they were talking about IPv4 running out, and mitigations for this - NAT, dynamic IPs, reclaiming allocated IP space, web servers that could serve multiple domains from the same IP address etc. One questioner went to the microphone and asked in a serious manner, "can't we solve all of these problems by rolling out IPv6?" The entire room broke into laughter.