Technical analysis examining why IPv6 is more architecturally complex than IPv4. The author explores historical design decisions and questions whether the protocol's complexity was necessary, or if IPv4 with expanded address bits would have sufficed.
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The world in which IPv6 was a good design
A retrospective technical analysis questions whether IPv6's architectural complexity was justified compared to a simpler IPv4-with-more-bits approach.
Sunday, April 19, 2026 12:00 PM UTC2 MIN READSOURCE: Hacker NewsBY sys://pipeline
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