138: Fixing the Internet with John Day

Programming Throwdown

Patrick Wheeler and Jason Gauci

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4.6 • 604 Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2022

⏱️ 88 minutes

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In the second part of a two-episode special, Professor John Day continues to share his stories from the early days of the internet. From the debate surrounding IPv6, different methodology around network design, and John’s own career advice, there’s tons of wisdom and practical experience to be gained here!

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0:00.0	Programming Throwdown. Episode 138. Fixing the Internet with John Day. Dig it away, Jason. Hey, everybody. We are here with
0:25.7	part two of kind of origins of the internet with John Day. And thanks so much, John, for coming back.
0:33.1	And I still have a ton of content to go through. So I really appreciate you taking time out of your day to do a second round here.
0:41.4	Thanks so much.
0:42.2	My pleasure.
0:43.0	My pleasure.
0:44.2	Cool.
0:44.6	I felt like we should kick it off with the sort of elephant in the room, which is IPV6.
0:50.0	I remember, you know, I've done a lot of peer-to-peer networking things in the past.
0:56.1	And, you know, I remember seeing IPV6, I don't even know how many years ago.
1:00.8	I mean, definitely more than a decade ago.
1:02.9	And saying, this is amazing because, you know, all the nat traversal and nat punch through
1:09.4	and all these tricks you have to do
1:11.0	where two computers send packets to a third computer and it sort of like connects them to each
1:15.5	other. Like all of these things that, you know, aren't guaranteed to work would fade away.
1:20.7	And I'd be able to say, here's the IP address of your refrigerator.
1:23.9	I'd just like go and send it a packet.
1:26.2	None of that came true.
1:28.0	And so I think it would be good to start with just what the heck happened?
1:32.4	Like what is IPV6?
1:34.3	What is it supposed to do?
1:35.7	What really happened there?
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