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Vint Cerf Keeps Blaming Himself For IPv4 Limit
netbuzz writes "Everyone knows that IPv4 addresses are nearly gone and the ongoing move to IPv6 is inevitable if not exactly welcomed by all. If you've ever wondered why the IT world finds itself in this situation, Vint Cerf, known far and wide as one of the fathers of the Internet, wants you to know that it's OK to blame him. He certainly does so himself. In fact, he does so time and time and time again."
For what it's worth, Vint Cerf was instrumental in ensuring that the putative IPv6 fix would fail massively.
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No thats wrong. HTTP and the web browser were so obvious at the time of writing the specifications for IPv4 we let that retard Berners-Lee write up his papers and feel good about himself for being "first" to come up with it. This problem could easily have been predicted.
> Vint Cerf was instrumental in ensuring that the putative IPv6 fix would
> fail massively.
Good for him. Anyone with a right to be on "teh intarwebzes" already has an IP address. All the wogs in bongobongo and the chinks in hoo-no-fuk-ware province can just bugger off until they learn how to wipe their arses.
Who is this Vince you speak of and why are we blaming him instead?
No idea but it wasn't me :)
I dont read
I think the Fucking Problem with IPv6 Adobtion is they fucking tried to fix everything wrong with the internet!
Why did they do this? I mean When we ran out phone numbers the first time we just added an exchange number, when we ran out again we just added a area code, then a country code and so on.
Why didn't they just add an extra octet? or even just double the address space from 32 to 64?
But seriously, They over-engineered IPv6 and are now asking why it took so long to adapt? Did you really need to reinvent NAT? And why get rid of DHCP? Next thing I know they're going to tell me when I switch over to IPv6 my Kitchen sink will be redundant.
Also While I'm ranting.... WHY DOES COPY PASTE NOT WORK?!?:!?!?!?!?
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the IPv6 address space allows an IP address for every 2 square inches of the surface of earth. you're an idiot.
We have the 6to4 transition mechanism, which is basically what you're describing: an IPv4 address encoded in an IPv6 address.
"must of thought" - this doesn't parse.