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purerandomness • today at 8:05 AM • 3 replies • view on HN

IPv6 will never make it. Maybe IPv8 [0], which IPv6 should have actually looked like:

> 1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1

[0] https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-thain-ipv8-00.html

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josh3736 • today at 8:34 AM

For observers, this draft was posted to HN earlier but quickly flagged and removed because the linked "IPv8" draft is absolute bunk.

See the removed thread for details: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47788857

po1nt • today at 9:27 AM

Nice idea. Always wondered why IPv6 went so ambitious with the addressing

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direwolf20 • today at 8:21 AM

Why do people keep proposing alternatives to IPv6 that are no easier than IPv6 but still require the whole world to start the deployment over from 0%?

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