> What's the alternative? Making no improvements at all, forever?
No, sadly. The alternative is what the entire tech world has been doing for the past 15 years: shove "improvements" inside whatever crap we already have because nobody wants to replace the crap.
If IPv6 were made today, it would be tunneled inside an HTTP connection. All the new apps would adopt it, the legacy apps would be abandoned or have shims made, and the whole thing would be inefficient and buggy, but adopted. Since poking my head outside of the tech world and into the wider world, it turns out this is how most of the world works.
I have some bad news...
> What's the alternative? Making no improvements at all, forever?
No, sadly. The alternative is what the entire tech world has been doing for the past 15 years: shove "improvements" inside whatever crap we already have because nobody wants to replace the crap.
If IPv6 were made today, it would be tunneled inside an HTTP connection. All the new apps would adopt it, the legacy apps would be abandoned or have shims made, and the whole thing would be inefficient and buggy, but adopted. Since poking my head outside of the tech world and into the wider world, it turns out this is how most of the world works.