Today in our newest take on "older technology is better": why NAT rules!
this post was submitted on 19 Jun 2024
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Ok, now I'm fully proposing a new standard, called IPv16! (Keeping with the tradition to jump over numbers.)
Also, it will be fully backwards compatible for a change! That solves the largest complaint from the holdouts!
IPv6 is already backwards compatible though. There's a /96 of the IPv6 space (i.e. 32 bit addresses) specifically for tunneling IPv4 traffic, and existing applications and IPv4 servers Just Work™ on IPv6 only networks, assuming the host operating system and routing infrastructure know about the 6to4 protocol and are willing to play ball.
I learned a lot about it from this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-oLBOL0rDE
Oh nice. Does your system FINALLY provide enough addreses for every Planck volume in the observable universe? It’s been frickin amateur hour, this internet thing.
No, sorry. It's backwards compatible on address length too.
TBH 4 billion IP addresses is way too many. We should reduce that to 33 million for convenience.