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Maybe. Or maybe we will suffer tremendous amount of pain for some period of years after which we will have a much brighter future as opposed to an ipv7 that ma
by dasil003 13y ago
Maybe. Or maybe we will suffer tremendous amount of pain for some period of years after which we will have a much brighter future as opposed to an ipv7 that made too many concessions and left us with a mess that would be politically impossible to ever fix.
- walshemj 13y agomm yes or maybe know when to let a flawed standard die when it is over taken by events. Even 20 years ago the Internet was obviously not going to be able go on as before where you could make major changes over a long weekend during the summer at the few core university's that where the the internet. That is why ipv6 should have been replaced.
- amaranth 13y agoReplaced with what? IPv6 has problems, sure, but the main problem is that IPv4 and IPv6 aren't compatible with each other. You're going to have that problem with any other replacement for IPv4 as well.
- walshemj 13y agoBecause they designed ipv6 as a alternative to the IPv4 address space, rather than an extension to the IPv4 address space.
- sopooneo 13y agoWhat you say makes sense, but what about the new thing that will have to change when we finally have our ideal IP version in place? There will always be a new hardware standard, a new language version, a new this or that, which can be done now or can be done well. It is a balancing act, but at some point we have to cash in our chips and make things usable in the short term.