The lofty and generous allocations of yore have been mangled beyond recognition. It's all politics but mostly money that rules the IPv4 scene these days. Were it a perfect world, unused space not found in TLD reference would be auto-reallocated as needed. Not gonna happen.

So we are stuck with the current reality, no vision, just exception handling for the next 10-20 years.

Public policy is absent. Already faux and mutant IP-like network tunnels are developing to thwart political and extortion hacking. Look for these to become the next mushrooming problem. On the outside, they appear normal, but inside, there are swathes of proprietary munging going on. It's embryonic today and a nightmare tomorrow.

And, despite virtues, what happens?

Why did AT&T get such a massive Class A block?

Even ham radio got the full 44.

Then, even more virtuously, IPv6 was invented with no mandates to be interactively compliant, no testing rigor, NADA.

It's indefensible. The IETF isn't a deity. It takes more to make a massive change after the fact, and look at the statistics, the implementations, the emphasis you cite in education. This is failure, on a broad and stupid scale. I wish it weren't so. But these are facts.

Astonishingly huge swaths are given away of the IPv6 address space. This doesn't count possible exponentiation to numbers that approach infinity, never get there, but are mind-boggling nonetheless.

The debacle renders clusterfuck-grade madness. We should expect better than this.

I understand the standards fully.

It's the implementations and supporting components, from old router, recalcitrant ISPs, end point walled gardens across the planet, and much other gear that may, or not, do one thing (perhaps correctly) and many bad things more commonly.

Citing standards is fine, it's the implementations that are diffuse, incorrectly installed, with ignorance and even malice towards IPv6 for sins it didn't commit-- just the results when connections don't work, or DNS is incorrectly implemented, or worse, poorly thought-through settings are chosen. Is it a bad rap? Yes.

That's the reality I find. No matter the standards, BS implementation thwarts IPv6 today, across the planet.

The address shortage also amounted to CIDR hoarding. The original allocations gave away huge swaths of space-- which in turn, were poorly implemented until suddenly, they were "gold". Some receiving early allocations auctioned them off to others, who in turn, parlayed them into more gold (or negotiating gold) along the way.

It's my belief that the IETF could've done this differently, and ARIN along with it. Vendors only haltingly implemented IPv6, and the worst problem came with endpoints and endpoint gear makers. Did they lead the way? No. Did they browbeat endpoint makers? No. Did they help find test suites to vet implementations? No. Did they fail? No, but it's not unlike the joke about how many plumbers does it take to change a light bulb? The answer: Wrong Union.

And just like daily auto traffic, you have to watch out for the other guy, who didn't signal and is talking on his phone.

The problem is: There is no standard way, just a bunch of them, because of the many mutant implementations.

This isn't horseshit, this is the reality of what network engineers have to deal with, not to mention the civilians who are just trying to learn enough to get by. Then they discover that the address space covers most atoms in the known universe, perhaps more.

Inside various operating systems, there are largely standard, and then sometimes, um, variations on how to pipe into IPv4 walled networks from varying compute spaces.

While I stand by the fact that IPv6 networks work as advertised, the day to day reality is that it is indeed, a clusterfuck of adoption problems. It solved a problem that didn't exist at the time, despite much hype to the contrary. Worse, it could've been better but because people were burned, there is a dual-system, and any possible improvements will cause moans of the like you have rarely heard in computing because everyone will point to the CF as evidence of adoption problems.

And tech titans don't need to go to conferences, except to keynote at their own vanity-bro love fests held in achingly expensive venues.

The sheer volume of rah-rah overcomes any sanity, and the "business partners" all tote the company line. They remind me of political conventions, except the food might be better.

Except when concerns about pedophilia trump Trump. Outrage at pedophilia strikes deep into the heart of many odd communities. It's also used as a false rubric against gay men, and others.

It's also stunning to note the age of consent and marriage across the US, and ye gawds, across the world. Female outrage votes.

A real coder uses Occam's Razor to shave. No cream needed.

The government in control of the USA may meet your description, and the people of the USA do not. Free Speech is at the heart of what we do.

Our credibility is mightily worn. The government pushes every edge, every value held dear. Much of the populace is relying on the rule of law, itself heavily damaged, to mitigate the ensuing problems.

There's little use in telling the world to hang in there. My personal hopes of a regime that heals instead of constantly wounding, still holds. I am ever hopeful of the goodness of people. The Asleep, rather than The Woke, have made a mess of things. A healer will come; I truly believe this. Vote.

OK, I'll grant you a race to the bottom, with tax dollar financing. SpaceX has a better success rate, and also with the incumbent dangers of sole-source cartage.

This is tougher for two reasons.

There is SpaceX, who holds a monopoly without Boeing, as Roscosmos blew up its launch pad facility. You can pick between satan and a devil, SpaceX and Boeing. Pick one. Blue Origin and others try to reach the skies, and simply aren't there. Meanwhile, the ISS goes around the earth, needing service SOMEHOW.

NASA really wants an alternative; they may or not have let Boeing slide in desperation. A single vendor space flight program is in no one's interest.

Whether you agree or disagree with the politically influenced programs, maybe or not funded in any given year for political gains and defeats, the ISS is up there, a moonshot or Marsshot just a dream as these programs are now farther and farther on the backburner.

Summary: Boeing proved themselves second-rate. NASA is sole-sourced to SpaceX. Public policy is at the root of the problem; the vendors are skunks with a pipeline to one of the fattest treasuries on earth.

They won't for me, either, but look to the success of Amazon's business model to see who's going to love this.

Then there'll be the backlash about not getting the best deal, vendor problems (price, shipping, warranty, etc.) and the conundrum if you get shipping advantages, etc.

It's an addicting convenience-ploy business model. Sadly, these often win over common sense and local business support.

I love ICE wannabees. Show me your papers, DamnOregonian, or are you really in Myanmar?

Dystopian look? Do you ignore what's around you?

Malpractice is more civil in action, and when you're a soulless corp, is the direct route. When people die as a result of stupidity, that's called manslaughter. Is manslaughter a criminal offense? Yes.

Our dependency on connectivity and working platforms follows the rubric surrounding the laws concerning utilities, but Section 230 provides the line in the sand of responsibility for culpability, and the sense of common carrier status provides a metric for service level.

The sense of what is justice should prevail. No one falls on their sword when hundreds of thousands of travelers are grounded when an API causes massive flight cancellations.

Just like train wrecks, outages have consequences. Justice also speaks to injury, even death, with consequences. The sense that the world gets is that US Tech Bros face no consequences. By many metrics, this lack of consequences is real and provable.

The resistance to AI is just another symptom of the problem of trust, and its violation in the tech world, and its immunity from consequences of injurious actions on the part of tech infrastructure holders.

It's a matter of trust, and the trust relationship between the US and EU, as well as the UK, is breaking fast.

Worse, all of US cloud vendors have shown a lack of safety, outages, missteps, and uptime in 2025. As these entities are largely immune from prosecution in the US, it's better to have someone close at hand, whose neck you can wring with actual authority.

I'm an American, and I don't trust these jokers, either. Big does not make better. The bleeding edge requires bandages, especially with AI infections becoming prominent.

Or the money Meta has burned off trying to be something that they aren't, the ashes of failed products needing to be brushed under the rug with fresh revenues.

I use LibreWolf on a couple of machines. It's OK, but it evolves slowly. They deserve the money I donated to Mozilla. But the distros don't include the LibreWolf version; Ubuntu as an example, puts in a godforsaken package island.

If the LibreOffice folks could somehow hug the LibreWolf people, distros could take a turn for the better.