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"Is there a reason why adoption has been so abysmally slow?" Just the obvious one: the people who designed IPv6 didn't design for backwards compatibility.
by bananamogul 6mo ago
"Is there a reason why adoption has been so abysmally slow?"
Just the obvious one: the people who designed IPv6 didn't design for backwards compatibility.
- jampekka 6mo ago> Just the obvious one: the people who designed IPv6 didn't design for backwards compatibility. Nor for easy transition.
- Dagger2 6mo agoHow so? The same working group published e.g. https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1933 https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1933, and it's hard to see how v6 could have been designed for backwards compatibility in ways that it wasn't already. I've asked lots of people to describe a more backwards-compatible design, and generally the best they can manage is to copy the way v6 does things, ending up with the same problems v6 has. This has happened so often that the only reasonable conclusion is that it can't really be done any better than it was.