Waste will kill ipv6 too

Thu Dec 28 19:34:27 UTC 2017

On December 28, 2017 at 19:23 mel at beckman.org (Mel Beckman) wrote:
 > IPng was discussed to death and found not workable. The history is there for you to read. In the meantime, it's not helpful claiming IPng until you understand that background.

By "IPng" I only meant whatever would follow IPv4, IP next generation,
not any specific proposal which may've called itself "ipng".

But more importantly the difference between thinking in terms of 128
bits vs 2^128 addresses which seem to be conflated in these
discussions, repeatedly.

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