Agreed 100%! I know there's tough challenges to making this reality, but if https://serverspace.io/about/blog/ipv8-explained-what-we-kno... could be an IRL thing, I would buy company network equipment and use computer OSes that supported this draft standard.

It's a much better compromise and ergonomics to migrate from IPv4 to an IPv4 respecting successor, where IPv6 is just the academic snobbery and utterly alien mental model for not-enough benefits.

For the same reason Unix stuck around and beat up its own successor Plan 9/inferno. That inertia even decades later is the same reason IPv4 still beats IPv6.

IPv8 is more of a linux to unix than a plan 9.

192.168.0.0/24 -> fd00:0::/64

192.168.1.0/24 -> fd00:1::/64

192.168.2.0/24 -> fd00:2::/64

192.168.240.0/24 -> fd00:240::/64

It's not a great idea, but its no harder.

No need to mess around with setting up DHCP, remembering if your router is top or bottom of the subnet, and if you want 500 devices on a single subnet that's no problem.

Now if you still need ipv4 then yes, ipv6 is stupid as you have double the pain for none of the gain, but if you are ip6 only then its far easier.

you can use 1234 if you want, that's also unused space