alt Hacker NewsBut the desktop/laptop/phone/printer was the EASIEST thing to change in that 30 year history. And it would have been the easiest thing to demand a change req from a company for.
But the desktop/laptop/phone/printer was the EASIEST thing to change in that 30 year history. And it would have been the easiest thing to demand a change req from a company for.
Yes: but the process would have been exactly the same whether for a hypothetical IPv4+ or the IPng/IPv6 that was decided on; pushing new code to every last corner of the IP universe.
How could it have been otherwise given the original network structures were all of fixed lengths of 32 bits?