Re:IPv6 Is Hard
by kstrauser on Sunday February 16, 2025 @01:59PM
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That would have required exactly as much work to transition, plus require computers to get good at 48-bit math. ("Why are the top 2 bytes always 0xFF?" "I don't know, grandson, but I'm sure it seemed like a great idea before Y248.")
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Re:IPv6 Is Hard
by lowercased on Sunday February 16, 2025 @09:00PM
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I'd imagine many countries would claim a top spot or two, and transition all canadian addresses to, say, 7.0.0.0.0.0. Big companies would probably get some of their own. Legacy/default stuff would have leading 0.0, sure, but... so what?
No, it wouldn't have taken 'exactly as much work to transition'. See another reply. In 2024, I'm still reading about BGP/routing table issues, and hardware having problems keeping up with IPv6 networking - it's just too large. How was this supposed to work in 1999?
A smaller stepped transition from 4 billion addresses to... 64k of those would have been an easier transition step, and the ease - mental, UI, training, testing, security, etc would have given everyone involved the confidence and positive feedback to tackle a next stage to IPv6 (eventually).