On Wed, 12 Jan 2011 11:10:03 -0800 Randy Bush <[email protected]> wrote: > > the first global-scale trial of IPv6, the long-anticipated upgrade to > > the Internet's main communications protocol known as IPv4. > > this phrasing is both amusing and deeply sad. amusing because many folk > have been running ipv6 globaly for over a decade. deeply sad because > this is taken to be shiny and new as we approach the end of the iana > ipv4 free pool. what have people been smoking? >
IPv4. Every now and then it is worth remembering that IPv4 was a protocol that was designed for a small experimental network that managed to escape into production. How long it has been usable is actually quite remarkable, and has only been achieved through a series of neat hacks like classes, subnets and CIDR. Regards, Mark.
