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It's terrible from UX point of view. 1. 128 bit is likely an overkill. 64 bit would give more or less 2 billion addresses per every human for earth. Likely eno

It's terrible from UX point of view. 1. 128 bit is likely an overkill. 64 bit would give more or less 2 billion addresses per every human for earth. Likely enough. 2. It's unreadable. Why the hell use hex? 3. It's been proposed in 1998. It became a standard last year. Not exactly quick adoption and it tells something. Yes, it will probably be deployed out of necessity, but it's weird nobody noticed that if something doesn't get traction for 20 years, there is probably something wrong with it.

majewsky 8y ago
2. is because of 1. 3. Eh, what? IPv6 was published in 1998, as you say. What makes you think it became a standard only last year?
- urda 8y ago
  Not OP, but for 3) I believe they are referring to: https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2017/07/rfc-8200-ipv6-has-been-standardized/ https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2017/07/rfc-8200-ipv6-h...
tambre 8y ago
1. Easier organization. Allows logical subnetting and more efficient routing. 2. It allows you to see subnetting. It makes managing IPv6 so much easier than IPv4. 3. It became "Internet Standard" last year, because the working group decided that it was about time to combine all the RFCs with the errata corrected in a single RFC. Just a formality. As for traction... blame humans. If there's something better to replace the old thing, but the improvements aren't dramatic enough (e.g. saving tons of money) and the old thing still works, then a huge portion of lazy people won't switch.
urda 8y ago
1. Perhaps it seems too much now, but if we're taking the time to migrate our global network to a new standard, we might as well get a ton of addresses out of it for many years to come. 2. Why are you reading it? Networking addresses do NOT need some special UI / UX interface. For most users, they are never going to see it. 3. Neat, but that's not really a point. If you find yourself setting time limits on about everything in life, well let's just say you're boxing yourself in for failure. Over the past 20 years we've seen the explosion of growth in devices, networking, and communication. It comes with no shock (to experts and experienced technical people alike) that it's taking a long time to switch over. There isn't some magical "press this button for everyone to be IPv6" FYI.

majewsky 8y ago

2. is because of 1. 3. Eh, what? IPv6 was published in 1998, as you say. What makes you think it became a standard only last year?

urda 8y ago
Not OP, but for 3) I believe they are referring to: https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2017/07/rfc-8200-ipv6-has-been-standardized/ https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2017/07/rfc-8200-ipv6-h...

tambre 8y ago

1. Easier organization. Allows logical subnetting and more efficient routing. 2. It allows you to see subnetting. It makes managing IPv6 so much easier than IPv4. 3. It became "Internet Standard" last year, because the working group decided that it was about time to combine all the RFCs with the errata corrected in a single RFC. Just a formality. As for traction... blame humans. If there's something better to replace the old thing, but the improvements aren't dramatic enough (e.g. saving tons of money) and the old thing still works, then a huge portion of lazy people won't switch.

urda 8y ago

1. Perhaps it seems too much now, but if we're taking the time to migrate our global network to a new standard, we might as well get a ton of addresses out of it for many years to come. 2. Why are you reading it? Networking addresses do NOT need some special UI / UX interface. For most users, they are never going to see it. 3. Neat, but that's not really a point. If you find yourself setting time limits on about everything in life, well let's just say you're boxing yourself in for failure. Over the past 20 years we've seen the explosion of growth in devices, networking, and communication. It comes with no shock (to experts and experienced technical people alike) that it's taking a long time to switch over. There isn't some magical "press this button for everyone to be IPv6" FYI.