Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E. R." Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Anybody Using IPv6? Date: Wed, 21 May 2025 10:47:52 +0200 Lines: 42 Message-ID: References: <100c243$c9t$1@reader1.panix.com> <100hcol$3nsd6$1@news1.tnib.de> <100hiha$25ta5$4@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 336kSv5yjIGkjJYDZwTjJwUwi8lQpZ6uy83CPeR8QFBvPYtGfN Cancel-Lock: sha1:XVVHm1a/+lBKDEf5Su+2uoVmdhE= sha256:RopfHMxRNp6r4Xtcov8RvP2l/xs6erHNXY8P8l+a/i4= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-CA, es-ANY In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:67626 On 2025-05-21 05:42, c186282 wrote: > On 5/20/25 5:37 AM, The Natural Philosopher wrote: >> On 20/05/2025 08:59, Marc Haber wrote: >>> Popping Mad wrote: >>>> On 5/17/25 2:01 PM, vallor wrote: >>>>> IPv6 is the future. >>>> >>>> fuck ip6 >>> >>> This is a raging example how pseudonymous people say things that would >>> be unwise to say in a non-anonymous environment. >>> >>> IPv6 is a protocol. It is a good one. It doesn't hurt anybody. Why >>> should it be "fucked"? >>> >>> I think that this kind of hate should go a different way. >>> >> Well it is another apparent 'designed by comp scis to be as opaque as >> possible with a hundred bells and whistles that no one will ever use' >> >> As c186282 said. why not just prepend or append another '.000.' > >   Hey, it'd WORK - kinda smoothly. > >   Backwards compatibility kinda easy. > >   Also, the NUMBERS are things people can UNDERSTAND, >   unlike all the long HEX crap in IPV6 > >   IPV4 = unexpectedly proved a bit inadequate > >   IPV6 = horrible overkill 'solution' > >   IPV5 ... my proposal ... maybe the best and >   most transparent. Good for the next 50 years >   fer-sure. And have our children go over this problem again? -- Cheers, Carlos E.R.