Those are effectively entrenched de facto standards, but its not the fault of the creators, its the fault of the people unwilling to move with the times. I'm not cool enough to run an AS, but I know for the other two better alternatives are already here. As Vint Cerf has said, 32 bits was enough for an experiment, it just never ended.
IPv6 and SFTP are here and _in use_ by anyone who isn't clinging on to old tech like people clung to IE6.
>we need to think first, then code
Thinking first, implementing and then improving is how technology advances. Iteration is mandatory, otherwise you're stuck in a waterfall-type scenario. Without it, I sure hope you enjoy riding your horse down to the local Gutenburg press to pick up this week's HackerNews and read my comment there.
> its the fault of the people unwilling to move with the times.
It's the network effect. Once something is "out there", it's really, really hard to get rid of it. If the first version that reaches critical mass has unfixable flaws, you'll be stuck with them forever.
I don't blame Vint, he couldn't have idea how successful the experiment is going to be, but I can't read HN over IPv6.
But now we know how web standards spread and stick around forever.
HTML5 special-cases parsing of <XMP> element. CSS has quirks mode, almost standards mode and standards mode and two syntaxes for clip().
Those are effectively entrenched de facto standards, but its not the fault of the creators, its the fault of the people unwilling to move with the times. I'm not cool enough to run an AS, but I know for the other two better alternatives are already here. As Vint Cerf has said, 32 bits was enough for an experiment, it just never ended.
IPv6 and SFTP are here and _in use_ by anyone who isn't clinging on to old tech like people clung to IE6.
>we need to think first, then code
Thinking first, implementing and then improving is how technology advances. Iteration is mandatory, otherwise you're stuck in a waterfall-type scenario. Without it, I sure hope you enjoy riding your horse down to the local Gutenburg press to pick up this week's HackerNews and read my comment there.