Post #2786739

2026-04-16 09:30 UTC

@stuartl@mastodon.longlandclan.id.au @ehashman@cloudisland.nz Don't take this draft seriously. It seems like IPv4 with 64 bit ip addresses and full backwards compatibility for IPv4. No mention of IPv6 besides it having failed its job (not my opinion, just a summary). I

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@stuartl@mastodon.longlandclan.id.au 2026-04-16 10:06

@0xIO32@fosstodon.org @ehashman@cloudisland.nz Yeah well, I half expected a publication date of 2026-04-01. The thing is, it took about 4~5 years before IPv6 started appearing in operating systems. It wasn't until the 10 year mark (2008) we started to see ISPs offering it. World IPv6 day didn't happen until 13 years later (2011). 2026 (28 years later) and lots of ISPs and websites still live in 1984 worshipping RFC791 like it's new juice. Dual-stack is the most practical spot where we are just now. The way things are going, this will be the case well into 2030 and beyond. So the idea of an IPv8, yeah… doesn't seem credible. It's taken this long to get any real traction on IPv6 and we're still barely half-way there.

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