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comex on Aug 14, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: The world in which IPv6 was a good design (2017)

> but then we'd be stuck with IPv4-based IPv6 addresses forever.

Yep, but would that have been so bad? Certainly with IPv6's 128-bit addresses, there would still be enough space to go around…

Though admittedly, when I see "IPv4 with more bits" hypotheticals, they often involve smaller addresses than IPv6.

p1mrx on Aug 14, 2023 [–]

It wouldn't be the end of the world, but it's inelegant. Take a look at your Gmail headers for example.

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