Re: IPv8...
Brian E Carpenter via Internet-history <[email protected]>
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On 05-May-26 12:18, Vint Cerf wrote:
> Padlipsky was a unique character. Incidentally, IPv8 suggests eliminating a sort of vegetable/tomato mix.....
Although I'm a Brit (a.k.a. a Pom, where I live), I know enough about American popular culture to think that's very, very funny.
It does remind me of a famous T-shirt.
Brian
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> On Fri, Apr 17, 2026 at 7:52 PM Brian E Carpenter via Internet-history <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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> Being compared to Padlipsky is a considerable honour that I don't deserve. Sadly, I never met him.
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> Regards/Ngā mihi
> Brian Carpenter
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> On 18-Apr-26 10:50, Bill Ricker wrote:
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> > On Fri, Apr 17, 2026 at 5:30 PM the keyboard of geoff goodfellow via Internet-history <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>> wrote:
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> > *_The community should avoid wasting time on such proposals_*."
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> > was most enjoyably Padlipsky-esque in the way his 1982 {{RFC874}} Critique
> > of X.25 was
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> > "*Conclusion*
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> > *_**X.25 is not a good thing_*."
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> > Speaking as The Literary Estate of MAP, I concur with Geoff that Brian's above new anti-v8 dicta is delightful and fits MAP's sense 'technico-aesthetic criticism'.
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> > (I rather like V8 myself, but being cheap, I usually just buy the store's-own generic tomato juice.)
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> > At least my new fibre-to-home router has IPv6, finally !
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> > // Bill in Boston
> > // The Literary & Spiritus Estate of MAP
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