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No. The difficulty is social. Everyone would have been fine with "IPV4.2", IPV4 with six octets, because it's just like something they already knew, fixing its
by tuatoru 3y ago
No.
The difficulty is social. Everyone would have been fine with "IPV4.2", IPV4 with six octets, because it's just like something they already knew, fixing its one obvious defect, not enough addresses.
The consitituency for replacing the hardware/firmware and software stacks would have been there.
IPV6 was not just like IPV4 and so people naturally resisted the devaluation of their hard-won knowledge.