30 Jun
2017
30 Jun
'17
2:53 p.m.
On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 09:34:06AM -0400, James Knott via talk wrote:
According to Vint Cerf, IPv4 was never intended to be released as a public system. It was intended to demonstrate the concepts, and the "official" version would have a much larger address space.
That's what happens when you make a decent beta and show it to the people in charge. They instantly want to use it, without wanting to spend the time to make the final version properly. :) -- Len Sorensen