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United States IPv6 adoption over 50%

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Re: United States IPv6 adoption over 50%

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Am I the only one that hates IPv6 ergonomics? I have to transcribe IPv4 addresses all the time, I'd hate to try and do it with a 128 bit address. Could they not have gone with 64 bit addresses, was 18,446,744,073,709,551,615 addresses really not enough?

Half the bits are unusable anyway...

Re: United States IPv6 adoption over 50%

#20

Am I the only one that hates IPv6 ergonomics? I have to transcribe IPv4 addresses all the time, I'd hate to try and do it with a 128 bit address. Could they not have gone with 64 bit addresses, was 18,446,744,073,709,551,615 addresses really not enough?

As said in another reply, I've been in contact with IPv6 for like 20 years and every year I have to understand it again I fully agree with you and would even say that even 48 bits could have done something with 281,474,976,710,656 values possible
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