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The IPv6 Transition

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Kelteseth ◴[] No.41893424[source]
I've mentioned this previously. Without government-mandated standards, implementation could take years. We apply this approach to numerous areas; why should IP be an exception?
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robocat ◴[] No.41893675[source]
A world of being told what to do was not the "dream" of freedom for the internet.

If you want the government to mandate standards, vote with your feet and move to China where it has been mandated.

I thought the point of the article is that perhaps IPv6 is ultimately unnecessary: worse is better?

Why are we engineers so attracted to authoritarianism? The idea of just telling everyone to use the new version seems attractive to me too. Then again I often deeply admire practical engineering compromises. (edited: clarified)

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Kelteseth ◴[] No.41893792[source]
Agreeing on a common standard is not authoritarianism.
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1. robocat ◴[] No.41893872[source]
You said "government-mandated" - do you think your words matter?

That doesn't sound like agreement.

Agreement is how we have arrived at the imperfect solution we have now... Agreement between various technical and non-technical parties.

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2. orangeboats ◴[] No.41902603[source]
Conversely, blindly categorizing all government mandation as authoritarianism sounds like a highway to all kinds of logical fallacies! Is mandating a fair market (by e.g. punishing monopolies) authoritarian? A sensible person would answer no.

Similarly, mandating an Internet Protocol that doesn't require centralization (you know, NAT) and renting an address from the Big Boys (AWS etc) sounds like a perfectly sensible decision to me.

> Agreement is how we have arrived at the imperfect solution we have now...

I disagree. What we have now is not an explicit agreement, it's a status quo which can be broken by an external force.

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3. robocat ◴[] No.41915411[source]
A sentence written by a pedant that doesn't help communicate.

Followed by another sentence.

Ending with a quote that implies a worldview that the government should use violence without any balance "it's a status quo broken by an external force".

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4. orangeboats ◴[] No.41925186{3}[source]
I don't think you understand what "pedant" means.