Randy Bush wrote:
i suspect that, in years of overabundant late stage capitalism, folk
went nuts. and we are now paying for it. one of my fave quotes
I thought of it in a slightly different way--like a space that we
were exploring and, in the early days, we figured out this
consistent path through the space: IP, TCP, and so on. What's been
happening over the last few years is that the IETF is filling the
rest of the space with every alternative approach, not necessarily
any better. Every possible alternative is now being written down.
And it's not useful. -- Jon Postel
And Steve Deering agreed with Jon saying "Exactly".
That's so funny because the statement was published in Oct. 1998
and the first rfc on IPv6 was published in Dec. 1995.
Masataka Ohta
