On Fri, 2022-03-18 at 13:17 -0700, Michael Thomas wrote: > > > > We weren't part of the wars. What I saw was what eventually became ipv6 > and I remember talking to one of my coworkers about how hard he > thought it would be to implement. He concurred that he didn't think it > would be any big deal. One of our big issues is that we didn't have > anybody to interop with, that and nobody was asking for it unlike v4 > features.
Classic Second System Effect, as described by Fred Brooks... in 1975. "The Mythical Man-Month" is a great book for remembering how we got here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-system_effect But as all you have said, here we are.