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Re:Did AS8003 just disappear? by azernik on Saturday September 11, 2021 @08:24AM (#28491398)
It's an address space expansion. You were always going to need hacky stuff for legacy clients, and for any service that wants to be reachable by said clients.
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Re:Did AS8003 just disappear? by tialaramex on Saturday September 11, 2021 @12:11PM (#28493112)
> It's an address space expansion

Exactly this. There is no "backwards compatible" way to have more addresses in a protocol that's wedded to 32-bit addresses. That's just how numbers work. The protocol with a larger address space will be incompatible, and so anybody who seems surprised/ disappointed hasn't even really thought about the problem.

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