Reply to post: IPV6 is a bad design

Windows 10 networking bug derails Microsoft's own IPv6 rollout

Mage Silver badge

IPV6 is a bad design

It takes no account of the real world, privacy is an afterthought kludge and has about zero ability to work with IP4.

I hope the IETF has been working on an IPv8 that interworks properly with IPv4 and that can be easily configured for privacy and security by default on home users "edge routers + firewall + modem + Wifi Airpoint devices.

Essentially we can only turn off IPv4 when EVERYONE is using IPv6, that's not realistic. Nor is the configuration of a home LAN other than for network specialists.

IP6 may be a wet dream for Google and IoT, but it's not fit for purpose for ordinary consumers or to allow seamless transition to IP6 from IP4.

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