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I wonder if it's perhaps time to write off IPv6, for this reason, and come up with a different standard that is more like that. Because we're decades in here,
by Nursie 5y ago
I wonder if it's perhaps time to write off IPv6, for this reason, and come up with a different standard that is more like that.
Because we're decades in here, and it's still not dominant, for the reasons given.
- IshKebab 5y agoBased on this https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html#tab=ipv6-adoption https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html#tab=ipv6... we're probably 15-20 years away from "enough people have IPv6 that you can start dropping IPv4". There's zero chance you could make an IPv5 and have any adoption at all in that time.
- p_l 5y agoYou would start from scratch to develop chips that would support your new formats. IPv4+TCP and IPv6+TCP is literally baked into hard silicon on many, many devices, even if not for all phases of the protocol. We're talking redesigning switching chips, redesigning TCAM (content-addressable memories used to cache routes), etc. on top of designing yet another protocol. At least old IPv9 had the benefit of some level of support in sw/hw when it was proposed (as it reused CLNS from OSI for internetwork protocol)