Post by @Andres4NY@social.ridetrans.it

@Andres4NY@social.ridetrans.it

2026-04-10 16:42 UTC

@KathyReid Instead of doing a 20+ year snails-pace migration to IPv6 where we ensure everything's reachable between the two versions, we could've just created a separate IPv6 "new internet" network and had that be the fun, non-monopolized version. I suppose we could always do IPv7..

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@alienghic@timeloop.cafe 2026-04-10 17:16

@Andres4NY @KathyReid Given the way people are using the internet I thought named data networking would be a near option to the current host based networking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Named_data_networking

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@bms48@mastodon.social 2026-04-10 20:17

@Andres4NY @KathyReid Michael Padlipsky's book "The elements of networking style", from his time co-designing the forerunner of the original Internet, the ARPANET, is very illuminating here. It's at the Internet Archive, and the clankers (GenAI, LLMs) haven't trained on it because of the protective LCP PDF DRM. https://archive.org/details/elementsofnetwor00padl

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@bms48@mastodon.social 2026-04-10 20:17

@Andres4NY @KathyReid Disclaimer: this stuff is directly in the firing line of my actual PhD dissertation

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