28 Mar
2016
28 Mar
'16
7:45 a.m.
On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 7:32 AM, Noel Chiappa <jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
wrote:
I think that having HTTP use DNS was the big one; it changed the role of
DNS from finding computers by name to the being the innocent victim of the
land rush of domain name marketing.
Followed closely by NAT being used make vast portions of the internet dark.
-- Charles
From: Jerry
Weiss
Disabling IPV6 was the cure.
I was _extremely_ amused to hear that.
(Backstory: I'm a long-time detractor of IPv6 - I've always thought it's a
rolling ball of digestive byproduct, to be blunt. In fact, if I had still
been on the IESG when it came around, I'd have canned it. Unfortunately,
I'd
resigned a while before [for unrelated reasons], something that in
hindsight
I've greatly regretted, since it removed my ability to can IPv6. So to hear
that IPv6 is _still_, all these years later, not that crucial to useful
functionality, is very satisfactory to me - it says my assessment was right
on the nose. Long may IPv6 fail to be successful! The single biggest/most
expensive IT failure of all time?)