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[–] [email protected] 44 points 9 months ago (16 children)

Does anyone else have the thought that maybe it's time to just replace these 30+ year old ancient protocols? Seems like the entire networking stack is held together with string and duct tape and unnecessarily complicated.

A lot of the decisions made sense somewhat in the 80s and 90s, but seems ridiculous in this day and age lmao

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Same unfortunately goes for a big chunk of the law on a global scale.. Constant progress, new possibilities and technologies, changes in general are really outpacing some dusted and constantly abused solutions. Every second goes by and any “somehow still holding” relic is under more pressure. As a species we can have some really great ideas but the long-term planning or future-proofing is still not our strongest suit.

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