[ih] IPv8...

[John Levine]

It appears that the keyboard of geoff goodfellow via Internet-history <geoff at iconia.com> said:
>your "*Conclusion*
>
>The main reason for IPv6, and its only real reason for existence, was
>bigger addresses. The problems of coexistence were inevitable, and it was
>hard to find the best (or rather, least bad) solutions. Most of the
>difficulties of IPv6 implementation and deployment are not the result of
>the details of IPv6 design. ...

I agree although there were details that made it worse.  DHCPv6 wasn't until 2003, I gather
largely because the IPv6 crowd insisted that SLAAC solved all its problems, which it doesn't.

The new approach to fragmentation doesn't work with anycast, as Geoff Huston has often
noted.  Dunno whether they could reasonably have forseen that, but it's still a problem for
large DNS systems.

R's,
John