10 Mar
2022
10 Mar
'22
9:22 p.m.
Matthew Walster wrote:
IPv6 is technologically superior to IPv4, there's no doubt about that.
It is not. Though IPv6 was designed against OSI CLNP (with 20B, or, optionally, 40B addresses), IPv6 incorporated many abandoned ideas of CLNP and XNS already known to be useless or harmful with experiences on IPv4 to be a protocol as bad as or even worse than CLNP. For example, address length was extended from original 8B to 16B to allow lower 48bits be MAC addresses, which was what XNS was doing, only to make ISP operations with raw addresses prohibitively painful. Masataka Ohta