IPv4, IPv6, and a sudden change in attitude
(World News Science)

A few years ago, I wrote The World in Which IPv6 was a Good Design. I`m still pretty proud of that article, but I thought I should update it a bit. No, I`m not switching sides. IPv6 is just as far away from universal adoption, or being a `good design` for our world, as it was three years ago. But since then I co-founded a company that turned out to be accidentally based on the principles I outlined in that article. Or rather, from turning those principles upside-down. In that article, I explored the overall history of networking and the considerations that led to IPv6. I`m not going to cover that ground again. Instead, I want to talk about attitude. Internets, interoperability, and Postel`s...