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Re:Tell HN: IPv6-only still pretty much unusable by detaro on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @11:37AM (#33896474)
> (1.2.3.4 can be referred as 0.0.0.0.1.2.3.4).

Which would need translation support at the edges between devices speaking only old-IPv4 and the superset-IPv4. Just as is done with IPv6.

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Re:Tell HN: IPv6-only still pretty much unusable by redox99 on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @11:43AM (#33896571)
Obviously hardware would need to be upgraded. But it is much much simpler, and you don't have separate configurations for Ipv4+ and ipv4.
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Re:Tell HN: IPv6-only still pretty much unusable by jedberg on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @12:40PM (#33897421)
Except that it would be a small incremental change instead of a whole second stack.
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