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Re: IPv6 woes - RFC
From: Joe Maimon <jmaimon () jmaimon com>
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2021 17:05:00 -0400
borg () uu3 net wrote:
IPv4 was extendable, with header option as one concept that was shot down in favor of a new protocol.Well, I see IPv6 as double failure really. First, IPv6 itself is too different from IPv4. What Internet wanted is IPv4+ (aka IPv4 with bigger address space, likely 64bit). Of course we could not extend IPv4, so having new protocol is fine.
If it was just an incremental IPv4 upgrade, than we would have been there already, and you could be using your extended IPv4 addresses to communicate with any gear over any network gear that had been upgraded in the past decade or two.
Its just that the internet was supposed to be able deploy a new protocol in the same or less time. Which didnt happen.
Joe
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- Re: IPv6 woes - RFC Owen DeLong via NANOG (Sep 28)
- Re: IPv6 woes - RFC Randy Bush (Sep 28)
- Re: IPv6 woes - RFC Christopher Morrow (Sep 28)
- Re: IPv6 woes - RFC Michael Thomas (Sep 28)
- Re: IPv6 woes - RFC Randy Bush (Sep 28)
- Re: IPv6 woes - RFC Christopher Morrow (Sep 29)
- Re: IPv6 woes - RFC Mark Andrews (Sep 28)
- Re: IPv6 woes - RFC Randy Bush (Sep 28)
- Re: IPv6 woes - RFC Victor Kuarsingh (Sep 28)
- Re: IPv6 woes - RFC Saku Ytti (Sep 28)
- Re: IPv6 woes - RFC Joe Maimon (Sep 24)
- Re: IPv6 woes - RFC Owen DeLong via NANOG (Sep 24)
- Re: IPv6 woes - RFC Owen DeLong via NANOG (Sep 24)
- Re: IPv6 woes - RFC borg (Sep 25)
- Re: IPv6 woes - RFC Baldur Norddahl (Sep 25)
- Re: IPv6 woes - RFC Owen DeLong via NANOG (Sep 25)
- Re: IPv6 woes - RFC Baldur Norddahl (Sep 25)
- Re: IPv6 woes - RFC Owen DeLong via NANOG (Sep 25)
- Re: IPv6 woes - RFC Valdis Klētnieks (Sep 25)
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