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It's not the case that there were no alternative designs at the time that v6 was proposed. RFC 1385 described a backwards compatible Extended Internet Protocol
by mprovost 2y ago
It's not the case that there were no alternative designs at the time that v6 was proposed. RFC 1385 described a backwards compatible Extended Internet Protocol which used IP Option headers to stuff in extra addressing space.
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1385 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1385
- p_l 2y agoStill deals with the mess that was BSD Sockets preventing forward compatibility.