> Pretty disappointing really. It took 15 years of haggling and we ended up with precisely the old protocol but now in a new, improved binary format with multiplexing.
Yeah, we can have a perfect reimplementation of the widely used protocol to fix all of the problems at once. Just look at how successful IPv6 has been.
IPv6 is doing fine. I have IPv6 at home, and natively on all of my servers. According to my Openwrt AP stats, about 47% of all my household inbound traffic receiving is via IPv6 (over 8 days of basically just web browsing).
IPv6 doesn't fix most of the problems with IP, in fact it makes some worse (routing tables are now bigger because of bigger addresses and there can be more of them). If IPv6 actually did attempt to fix issues in IP it might have seen faster adoption.
Yeah, we can have a perfect reimplementation of the widely used protocol to fix all of the problems at once. Just look at how successful IPv6 has been.