URLs, IPs and interception

[Tom Thomson]

> A common discussion over lunch in our canteen (when we can get a
> table: on Friday we had Gordon Brown nabbing a table for himself) is
> just that.  Why, we ask, do telco contracts so rarely mention IPv6?
> The conclusion we came to is that IPv6 suffered from creeping
> featureism (to be charitable) or OSI complexity envy (to be less
> charitable).

And perhaps that is why OSI finally died?   IPv6 proposals finally
proved that one could get more complex than OSI without being stupider
than TCP?

M.