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202007 - apenwarr

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A few years ago I wrote The World in Which IPv6 was a Good Design. I'm still proud of that article, but I thought I should update it a bit. No, I'm not switching sides. IPv6 is just as far away from universal adoption, or being a "good design" for our world, as it was three years ago. But since then I co-founded a company that turned out to be accidentally based on the principles I outlined in that article. Or rather, from turning those principles upside-down. In that article, I explored the overall history of networking and the considerations that led to IPv6. I'm not going to cover that ground again. Instead, I want to talk about attitude. Did you ever wonder why "Internet" is capitalized? When I first joined the Internet in the 1990s, I found some now-long-lost introductory tutorial. It talked about the difference between an internet (lowercase i) and the Internet (capital I). An internet is "any network that connects smaller networks together." The Internet is... well... it turns o

202007 - apenwarr Tasty, nutritious ...part of this complete breakfast Everything here is my opinion. I do not speak for your employer. ← March 2020 October 2020 → 2020-07-08 >> IPv4, IPv6, and a sudden change in attitude A few years ago I wrote The World in Which IPv6 was a Good Design . I'm still proud of that article, but I thought I should update it a bit. No, I'm not switching sides. IPv6 is just as far away from universal adoption, or being a "good design" for our world, as it was three years ago. But since then I co-founded a company that turned out to be accidentally based on the princ

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