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duskwufftoday at 2:24 AM0 repliesview on HN

TL;DR: because it doesn't actually solve anything.

Being able to jam an IPv4 address into an IPv6 packet header doesn't mean you can send that packet to an IPv4-only host and have it be understood. You still need an IPv6 stack on both endpoints, and on all the routers in the middle - and at that point, why not just use IPv6 addresses?