Leos Marek

Exactly! The main misconception of the IPv6 engineers was that they believed that they could foresee future of technological developments. But technological evolution cannot be designed on the drawing board. Technological evolution has to advance naturally in small gradual steps which is a well known fact to evolution experts. The risks of major jumps in evolution is that they usually miss the target by a magnitude or two. And this is exactly what happened with IPv6. I feel that IPv6 slowed down the advancement of the internet because it prevented the gradual evolution of IPv4.

What’s more, the idea that you can centrally impose a new protocol on the internet which is at its core a decentralized structure with countless independent players with their own agenda is painstakingly naive. The belief that a handful of engineers can just change the net at a single stroke shows that the “Internet Engineering Task Force” had no clue at all how the internet works at the political level.