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Re: Waste will kill ipv6 too


From: bzs () theworld com
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2017 14:34:27 -0500


On December 28, 2017 at 19:23 mel () beckman org (Mel Beckman) wrote:
IPng was discussed to death and found not workable. The history is there for you to read. In the meantime, it's not 
helpful claiming IPng until you understand that background.

By "IPng" I only meant whatever would follow IPv4, IP next generation,
not any specific proposal which may've called itself "ipng".

But more importantly the difference between thinking in terms of 128
bits vs 2^128 addresses which seem to be conflated in these
discussions, repeatedly.

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