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On 5/20/25 23:03, Marc Haber wrote:
> c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote:
>>    IPV4 = unexpectedly proved a bit inadequate
> 
> totally inadequate.
> 
>>    IPV6 = horrible overkill 'solution'
> 
> I violently disagree.
> 
> It is IPv4 that needs overkill 'solutions' to be kept alive.
> 
>>    IPV5 ... my proposal ... maybe the best and
>>    most transparent. Good for the next 50 years
>>    fer-sure.
> 
> Horrible.
> 
>>    These are numbers HUMANS can read, remember, understand.
> 
> IP Adresses were never meant to be remembered or understood.
> 
>>    Don't know WHERE the IPV6 stuff was coming from - TOO tech
>>    IMHO.
> 
> It is a sane, nicely designed, simple protocol with a lot of
> flexibility that needs less worarounds that IPv4 does.
> 

	IVP6 comes from having too many web sites to fit in IVP4.
If you pay attention to the larger picture you might know that. That
the protocol has not been properly instituted everywhere it should
have been is not the fault of the designers but of people who learned
IVP4 and think nothing better can come along.

	bliss