Comment by ianburrell
Comment by ianburrell 12 hours ago
How is that better than IPv6? Remember that there is no way to squeeze more address bits into IPv4 header, that need to come up with a new protocol. In fact, need to come up with a whole suite of new protocols. You could just make the addresses bigger but still need to deploy.
IPv6 changed some things, most of them for the better, and it already works. The only problem is migrating and the problem is people who don't want to switch.
One example of how IPv6 is better than IPv4 with more address bits, is that 128-bit address is big enough to put the whole IPv4 address in. NAT64 put the IPv4 address in the 64-bit host section. MAP-T puts the whole NAT state in address, getting rid of expensive CGNAT.
I don't understand why all my devices randomly assign themselves non-functional IPv6 addresses with no involvement from any router. Often it's even multiple non-functional IPv6 addresses.