On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 9:55 AM, Daniel Corbe <dco...@hammerfiber.com> wrote: >> On Dec 20, 2015, at 11:57 AM, Mike Hammett <na...@ics-il.net> wrote: >> >> There is little that can be done about much of this now, but at least we can >> label some of these past decisions as ridiculous and hopefully a lesson for >> next time. > > There isn’t going to be a next time.
*points and snickers quietly* You're either an incredible optimist, or you're angling to be the next oft- misquoted "640KB should be enough for anyone" voice. We got a good quarter of a century out of IPv4. I think we *might* hit the century mark with IPv6...maybe. But before we hit that, I suspect we'll have found enough shortcomings and gaps that we'll need to start developing a new addressing format to go with the newer networking protocols we'll be designing to fix those shortcomings. Until the sun goes poof, there's *always* going to be a next time. We're never going to get it _completely_ right. You just have to consider a longer time horizon than our own careers. Matt
