V6 still not supported

Fri Mar 18 08:23:23 UTC 2022

Yes, you are right. And gradually IPv4 was improved and fixed.
We learned how to defend L2. CIDR was added (with should be thing
from the begining instead of netmasks, but who could forsee...)

And in case of IPv6 it seems that all that experience was throwed out
of window. Design was much different that IPv4, adding new issues.
I have feeling that IPv6 was made by people who were NOT running networks.

The big question is, what we can do that to fix IPv6 problem.
I have no clue at all.. Im personally biased against IPv6.

---------- Original message ----------

From: Michael Thomas <mike at mtcc.com>
To: nanog at nanog.org
Subject: Re: V6 still not supported
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2022 18:52:32 -0700

On 3/17/22 3:30 AM, borg at uu3.net wrote:
> It seems team developing IPv6 had ONE way of doing things,
> with is actually recipe for disaster. Why? Because they were building an IP
> protocol. Something that will be using globally by ALL networks around.
> Not some local IOT (useless) shit used here and there.
> Thats why such IP protocol should be follow KISS concept and flexibility.
> Some people have different vision how to run network. And because
> Inter-net is an AS to AS network they should have right to do so.
As somebody who designed IoT things back when v6 was being designed, my only
question was whether it would get deployed, not whether it was too complex. It
was honestly a lot easier than a completely new protocol stack like appletalk or
netware.
> 
> In my opinion all that crypto stuff should be put layer upper because
> crypto is hard, very hard and can get obsolete quickly.
I don't see what the OS layer has to do with anything. An operating system that
doesn't get patches is even worse than app level code that doesn't.
> 
> Its same about other weird things embedded into IPv6 that probably
> should go layer up. And now people wonder why IPv6 adoption is crap and
> there is high resistance. IPv4 made mistakes too, but hell, it was the first.
> 
> It seems all the market needed was IPv4 with bigger address space.
> Instead of delivering it, some contraption has been created trying to solve
> non-existant (or already fixed) problems.

There were tons of things that were slapped onto IP that were basically
experimental like ARP and bootp. CIDR didn't even exist back then.

Also: security, for example, was not an already fixed problem. Far from it.

Mike