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Re:Tell HN: IPv6-only still pretty much unusable by jedberg on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @02:48PM (#33899261)
I think you're missing the point. You're a network engineer and know what you are doing. Most people aren't.

IP4+ would be easier because it's more incremental and less change than IPv6.

Yes, there exists solutions to all the problems that IP4+ would solve, but the point is backwards compatibility and incremental change is always easier than doing something new.

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Re:Tell HN: IPv6-only still pretty much unusable by jeroenhd on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @03:15PM (#33899633)
But, correct me if I'm wrong, IP+ doesn't do anything differently from IPv6, except that it changed the 6to4 prefix?

Host 1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8 still can't communicate with a "legacy" host 4.5.6.7 without some kind of bidirectional translation mechanism. Just prepending 0.0.0.0 to an address (or 2002:c000:0204, for that matter) doesn't fix the problem.

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