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From: Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Anybody Using IPv6?
Date: Wed, 21 May 2025 23:09:07 +0100
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On 2025-05-21, Marc Haber wrote:

> Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> wrote:
>>	IVP6 comes from having too many web sites to fit in IVP4.
>
> No. THAT issue has been solved with name-based virtual hosting and
> SNI. Which is too bad since it decreases the pressure to get rid of
> v4.

Here the IPv4 problem is not websites, but hosts/nodes/devices. IPv4
only survives because of NAT.

IPv6 seems to make it quite easy to get non-local addresses. At least
when properly deployed.

>>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.
>
> And it is the fault of the persons who are SO acquainted with the
> crutches that v4 needs to limp ahead that they actually think that a
> protocol that doesn't need THESE¹ crutches is crippled.
>
> Greetings
> Marc
>
> ¹ I am not saying that IPv6 is the best protocol ever but it's the
> best we've got at the moment.

What would be a good description/introduction/... in textual form of
IPv6 to introduce people to the way it's intended to be used? Stuff like
mentioning address scopes, RAs, DHCP, multicast...

-- 
Nuno Silva