I think there's some value in people expressing their visceral reaction to new ideas. If you read it as me trying to convince people IPv6 is bad, then maybe I

I think there's some value in people expressing their visceral reaction to new ideas. If you read it as me trying to convince people IPv6 is bad, then maybe I wasn't careful with my wording. It was an introspective comment designed for me to try to pick apart why I haven't spent any time learning IPv6 even though it seems to be important, like eating broccoli. And it's often the case that a lot of people are all thinking the same thing but everybody's too afraid to say it out of fear of someone ripping them apart, as you've done, or out of fear of sounding silly in public. Luckily my name is literally silly. (Humor is still allowed on HN, right?) So I just thought I'd post it incase it matched up with anyone else's first impressions of IPv6. I'd also disagree that "appeal doesn't matter." Appeal is certainly beside the point for a protocol spec, but one of the reasons Bitcoin became so popular so quickly is because of the hundred subtle ways the protocol is a pleasure to use (as is the implementation). Twitter is appealing because of its brevity, not merely because it lets people send messages without specifying a recipient. Email is appealing because humans can read the addresses, and because it has a "subject" line for humans to read. Etc. Yet in the case of IPv6, it's as if no thought whatsoever was put into making it appealing, which seemed odd.