alt Hacker NewsIPv6 will never make it. Maybe IPv8 [0], which IPv6 should have actually looked like:
> 1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1
[0] https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-thain-ipv8-00.html
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direwolf20 • today at 8:21 AM
Why do people keep proposing alternatives to IPv6 that are no easier than IPv6 but still require the whole world to start the deployment over from 0%?
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po1nt • today at 9:27 AM
Nice idea. Always wondered why IPv6 went so ambitious with the addressing
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For observers, this draft was posted to HN earlier but quickly flagged and removed because the linked "IPv8" draft is absolute bunk.
See the removed thread for details: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47788857