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Re:Enabling IPv6 support for IPv4-only apps on Linux by hot_gril on Friday October 06, 2023 @12:04PM (#37792543)
The authors of IPv6 intended to replace v4 with it, according to https://web.archive.org/web/20190129005124/http://www.ipv6.o...

Presumably the next several billion devices want to talk to the current ones. There will always be old devices left behind on old protocols, same as how old versions of SSL get rejected everywhere, and they can deal with it via compatibility layers like 4-to-6 NAT.

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