[ih] IPv8...

[Nigel Roberts]

Oh .. memories of the "IPV8 Guy" ...


On 4/17/26 10:28, Marc Haber via Internet-history wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 17, 2026 at 01:01:33PM +1200, Brian E Carpenter via 
> Internet-history wrote:
>> Some here might be interested by my new rant at https://github.com/ 
>> becarpenter/misc/blob/main/why6why.md
> 
> Thank you for that article, insightful. I would not, however, suggest 
> that IPv4 is simple. It stopped being simple 30 years ago. The only 
> people who see IPv4 as simple are too close to the protocol that they 
> don't see the issues that IPv4 inevitably has, such as the NEED for NAT, 
> address conflicts, and the complexity that comes from the fact that 
> related systems are unlikely to have addresses in the same network 
> nowadays.
> 
> I'd rather memorize the 16 bits of network that are actually under my 
> control in an IPv6 network (the first 48 bits are always the same inside 
> my prefix, and I don't have to care about the last 64) than 32 bits of 
> IPv4 addresses for a reasonably complex system.
> 
> Greetings
> Marc
> 

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