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Written by velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml on 2024-10-13 at 16:25

Why hasn't IP been replaced with RINA or Ouroboros?

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Written by basmati@lemmus.org on 2024-10-13 at 17:02

The same reason ipv6 still isn’t standard, there are tens of billions of networked devices in operation, with tens of millions being added every year above replacement rate. Any new network protocol or standard needs to integrate with the current stack to be adopted even a little bit; because corpos aren’t going to change out or update the 40-60 year old pieces of their stack that run well enough to not hinder profitability.

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Written by velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml on 2024-10-13 at 17:36

But both RINA and Ouroboros can run on top of IP, so that shouldn’t be an issue, right?

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Written by drspod@lemmy.ml on 2024-10-13 at 17:38

IPv6 can run on IPv4 and look how much that helped

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Written by Clusterfck@lemmy.sdf.org on 2024-10-13 at 18:13

The bottom line is and always will be in almost any industry some variation of “we already set up hardware that was developed solely to use this ancient thing that’s a standard. Once this new thing becomes industry standard, then we’ll switch.” With the big issue there being, the industry standard will never change until somebody makes the first change and nobody wants to risk the amount of money it would cost to switch.

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