alt Hacker NewsIn retrospect I think just adding another 16 or 32 bits to V4 would have been fine, but I don’t disagree with you. V6 is fine and it works great.
All the complaints I hear are pretty much all ignorance except one: long addresses. That is a genuine inconvenience and the encoding is kind of crap. Fixing the human readable address encoding would help.
IPv4 is absolutely fine. Consumers can be behind NAT. That's fine. Servers can be behind reverse proxies, routing by DNS hostname. That's also fine. IPv4 address might be a valuable resource, shared between multiple users. Nothing wrong with it.
Yes, it denies simple P2P connectivity. World doesn't need it. Consumers are behind firewalls either way. We need a way for consumers to connect to a server. That's all.