Reply to post: Re: IPv4 Address Pool Has Been Expanded Significantly

We've found another problem with IPv6: It's sparked a punch-up between top networks

Alan Brown Silver badge

Re: IPv4 Address Pool Has Been Expanded Significantly

".....backward compatibility to IPv4."

Idiots do like to prattle on about hthings they have no clue about.

IPv4 CAN'T be made compatible with IPv6 or vice versa. If it could have been done it would have been done. Kludging solutions were looked at and found to be even harder to implement than just using a clean sheet and dual-stacking.

And before we get yet another round of clueless raving about "ivory tower academics", fuck off and look at the actual list of IPv6 developers. It's full of senior engineers at networking companies trying to find a solution that can be implemented ONCE and not have to be redone every 20-30 years into the forseeable future.

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