I was at the Toronto IETF meeting in 1994(?) when they voted on 8-byte vs 16-byte addresses. I share the author's suspicion that 8-byte addresses would have ma

I was at the Toronto IETF meeting in 1994(?) when they voted on 8-byte vs 16-byte addresses. I share the author's suspicion that 8-byte addresses would have made a world of difference in IPv6 adoption. It's hard to understand nowadays just how slow many networks were back then - 28.8kb/s dialup modems were introduced in 1994, and 56k wasn't available until 1997 or 1998. Two 16-byte addresses take 9ms to transmit at that speed.