[ih] IPv8...

Brian E Carpenter brian.e.carpenter at gmail.com
Fri Apr 17 16:52:41 PDT 2026


Being compared to Padlipsky is a considerable honour that I don't deserve. Sadly, I never met him.

Regards/Ngā mihi
    Brian Carpenter

On 18-Apr-26 10:50, Bill Ricker wrote:
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> On Fri, Apr 17, 2026 at 5:30 PM the keyboard of geoff goodfellow via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org <mailto:internet-history at elists.isoc.org>> wrote:
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>     *_The community should avoid wasting time on such proposals_*."
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>     was most enjoyably Padlipsky-esque in the way his 1982 {{RFC874}} Critique
>     of X.25 was
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>     "*Conclusion*
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>                *_**X.25 is not a good thing_*."
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> Speaking as The Literary Estate of MAP, I concur with Geoff that Brian's above new anti-v8 dicta is delightful and fits MAP's sense 'technico-aesthetic criticism'.
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> (I rather like V8 myself, but being cheap, I usually just buy the store's-own generic tomato juice.)
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> At least my new fibre-to-home router has IPv6, finally !
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>   // Bill in Boston
> // The Literary & Spiritus Estate of MAP
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