Biggest mistake for IPv6: It's not backwards compatible, developers admit

Steve Wilcox stevewilcox at google.com
Thu Mar 26 16:51:17 CET 2009


Well, it was designed 15 years ago with the intention that it would be
rolled out in less than aforementioned time period, without a sudden urgency
brought on by slow adoption! So to be fair, the design probably could have
been better but I guess they were still living in a time period when
widescale protocol changes were do-able and taken seriously...

Steve

On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 5:29 AM, Hank Nussbacher <hank at efes.iucc.ac.il>wrote:

> <
> http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/032509-ipv6-mistake.html?netht=ts_032509&nladname=032509dailynewspmal
> >
>
> -Hank
>
>


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