RE: [RRG] Are we solving the wrong problem?

["Tony Li" <tony.li@tony.li>]

|
|I think so, in the end of the day.  It makes re-numbering a non-
|issue, as even active connections will trivially survive.  But the
|transition will be long..... (15 years?)
|
|Hence, if we want to move there (which I think we do), we need some
|interim solutions and a roadmap.
|

As always with host changes, I'm not convinced that it takes 15 years to
make significant forward progress.  The (in)security of the net has done us
a favor in that we can now update a significant portion of the hosts within
one month of having a patch, and certainly with a new OS every 3-5 years.

Test: 15 years ago I was programming on a Sun clone (SunOS 4.x) using an NCD
Xterminal.  None of that hardware has been seen for years and Solaris is now
on version 10.  Personally, I've gone through 4 PCs, several versions of
Windows, numerous versions of FreeBSD and more laptops than I can think of.

All it takes to make rapid forward progress is concerted effort, and all
that takes is rough consensus...

Tony



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