Re: Bridging the gap
"the geniuses at the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) deciding not to make it backwards compatible with IPv4."
Oh please! As has been expounded here several times before, the problem is that IPv4 was designed with no possibility of forward compatibility with a different address size. So it's mathematically impossible to design a succesor that is backwards compatible - the dual stack deployment model is the only mathematically possible solution. There are of course a whole bunch of techniques for co-existence, and they've been built into the main operating systems for years. The slow deployment is caused by (a) conservative ISPs and (b) cheapskate residential gateway products. That's why the deployment is going faster for smartphones, in fact, since they can bypass the cheapskate products and domestic ISPs.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
