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Watchdog slams Pentagon for failing – for a third time – to migrate US military to IPv6

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IPv6 was a great idea when it was invented

But that was a long time ago and the world has changed a lot since then. When IPv6 was created everyone was saying that we would run out of addresses soon and the internet would collapse ... that was about 25 years ago and we're all still sailing along just fine. I think this tells us more about the basic design of the internet than a little thing like the address scaling that has an itch or two.

It would make sense to dump IPv6 now and look at what's happened over the years and create a new mechanism - hopefully one that could be implemented without the massive changes that IPv6 requires.

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