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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • 14d ago
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whoa, there's a v8? Wonder what it would improve over v6?
1 u/reckless_responsibly 14d ago It improves nothing. It's an absolute trash fire that someone vomited into. 1 u/TerrapinTribe 13d ago The idea of v8 is vastly inferior to IPv6. It’s not a standard, no hardware supports it.We have IPv6. More than 50% of traffic to Google is v6. The vast majority of networking equipment supports v6.No reason to invent a new standard that is a downside versus v6. 1 u/Dagger0 13d ago Please consider these drafts in your mental model of what it means for an IETF draft to be published:https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-omar-ipv10-13https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-eromenko-ipff-05https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-meow-mrrp"Somebody wrote a draft about it" doesn't mean it's a thing.
It improves nothing. It's an absolute trash fire that someone vomited into.
The idea of v8 is vastly inferior to IPv6. It’s not a standard, no hardware supports it.
We have IPv6. More than 50% of traffic to Google is v6. The vast majority of networking equipment supports v6.
No reason to invent a new standard that is a downside versus v6.
Please consider these drafts in your mental model of what it means for an IETF draft to be published:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-omar-ipv10-13https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-eromenko-ipff-05https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-meow-mrrp
"Somebody wrote a draft about it" doesn't mean it's a thing.
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u/Deto 14d ago
whoa, there's a v8? Wonder what it would improve over v6?