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> It's been what, over twenty years now? If there wasn't a flag day for IP (1983-01-01) I'm sure there would have been people still insisting on using NCP. It
by throw0101c 3y ago
> It's been what, over twenty years now?
If there wasn't a flag day for IP (1983-01-01) I'm sure there would have been people still insisting on using NCP.
It took several decades' worth of experience to go from NCP to IP, and now that we've had experience with IPv4, it's worth moving towards IPv6.
> If a technology is useful, you don't have to shame people into using it.
It is useful for some people. It is not useful for others: like newly-started ISPs who can't get / afford IPv4 allocations for their millions (tens of, or hundreds of, in many APAC countries) of users and are left with paying for CG-NAT to reach many parts of the Internet. (And then their users have to double-NAT IPv4 to run their local networks, which breaks all sorts of things).
The fact that the early adopters / 'legacy' folks in some parts of the world lucked out on allocations does not mean IPv4, with its limited 32-bit address space, is "useful".