IPv6 Pain Experiment

Mon Oct 7 18:34:28 UTC 2019

> William Herrin wrote :
> I want to divert from the current flame war to make my biennial semi-serious reminder that it was at least theoretically possible to
> expand the IPv4 address space rather than make a whole new protocol. That we did not do so was a failure of imagination.
> http://bill.herrin.us/network/ipxl.html

That could have worked. Eventually, some form of IPv4 with "just" more bits could surface, but it will take a decade or more.
When did you write this ? I read it before, just can't remember how long ago.

Michel.

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