> I'm so given up on hopes for IPv6, that I feel it is almost the time to create IPv8, designing it to be an extension to IPv4, and ditching IPv6 completely, A

> I'm so given up on hopes for IPv6, that I feel it is almost the time to create IPv8, designing it to be an extension to IPv4, and ditching IPv6 completely, And new code has to be written to take advantage of that new protocol. And that new code has to be deployed on every single network element. Don't forget a new DNS record type so that old code is not confused by a new address format. And then everyone has to be convinced to deploy that new code and start assigning those new addresses. Just like had/has to be done IPv6. IPv8 will/would have the exact same issues with deployment as IPv6.