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Honestly we probably need IPv7 to roll back most of the things from IPv6 and be closer to IPv4x4. IPv6 is now older than IPv4 was at the time IPv6 was invented.
by Asooka 2y ago
Honestly we probably need IPv7 to roll back most of the things from IPv6 and be closer to IPv4x4. IPv6 is now older than IPv4 was at the time IPv6 was invented.
Heck, I would have probably simply added an Options flag for "long address" to support longer addresses. With the first part of the address being the IPv4 address of some ISP backbone router and the next 3 words being a device address on the network (with the all-0 device address reserved for the router itself). Then you don't even need to upgrade most of the routers beyond configuring them to accept packets with that option set. It would have been so simple and elegant and we would have probably upgraded most of the world by 2001.
- kstrauser 2y agoIPv6 looks silly until you learn about the problems it actually solves, and then realize it would be completely impossible to incrementally upgrade IPv4 to get there.
- Arnavion 2y ago>IPv6 is now older than IPv4 was at the time IPv6 was invented. The quantity of existing deployments that need to change is much larger for v6 than it was for v4. The problem with deploying v6 isn't that it's too different from v4, the problem is that it's different at all. Your v7 will have the same problems.