Let’s face it, even if he managed to get it working for himself, he’d still have to fight to get it adopted. The way I see it, most people won’t care and simply think it would be too much of a hassle to switch to anything. The ones who do care cannot wait to have everything in IPv6.
And given how “fast” IPv6 adoption has been, switch to something non-IP based is not going to happen any time soon.
Also, while I kind of get the idea author is talking about, pulling random addresses out of thin air and managing routing for that, even on a small scale, is going to have a crapload problems. Without subnet hierarchy with routes, gateways and stuff would mean something like globally broadcasted ARP packets and absolutely massive routing tables on endpoints. Plus with that approach the reslience of IP-networks would be lost (or routing tables would need to grow even more).
Also there’s some pretty big issues with malicious actors on the network, incompatibility with every router on planet and a ton more. What that kind of approach working globally would need is some scifi-level networking without latency or bandwidth limitations.
Let’s face it, even if he managed to get it working for himself, he’d still have to fight to get it adopted. The way I see it, most people won’t care and simply think it would be too much of a hassle to switch to anything. The ones who do care cannot wait to have everything in IPv6.
And given how “fast” IPv6 adoption has been, switch to something non-IP based is not going to happen any time soon.
Also, while I kind of get the idea author is talking about, pulling random addresses out of thin air and managing routing for that, even on a small scale, is going to have a crapload problems. Without subnet hierarchy with routes, gateways and stuff would mean something like globally broadcasted ARP packets and absolutely massive routing tables on endpoints. Plus with that approach the reslience of IP-networks would be lost (or routing tables would need to grow even more).
Also there’s some pretty big issues with malicious actors on the network, incompatibility with every router on planet and a ton more. What that kind of approach working globally would need is some scifi-level networking without latency or bandwidth limitations.