On Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 2:47 PM Randy Bush <ra...@psg.com> wrote: > > Perhaps you are too young to realize that the original IPv6 plan was > > not designed to be backward compatible to IPv4, and Dual-Stack was > > developed (through some iterations) to bridge the transition between > > IPv4 and IPv6? You may want to spend a few moments to read some > > history on this. > > ROFL!!! if there is anything you can do to make me that young, you > could have a very lucrative career outside of the internet. > > hint: unfortunately i already had grey hair in the '90s and was in the > room for all this, and spent a few decades managing to get some of the > worst stupidities (TLA, NLA, ...) pulled out of the spec. at iij, we > rolled ipv6 on the backbone in 1997. > > randy >
OMFG, that just made my afternoon. :D :D Someone calling Randy Bush "too young". If Randy Bush is too young, the rest of us must still need our diapers changed on a regular basis. :P Matt