Originally posted by Bruce Cloutier
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The biggest blunder of IPv6 is that it was designed as a completely separate protocol, alongside IPv4. Also, IPv6 doesn't do anything you couldn't equally achieve with IPv4. So, IPv6 requires you to do everything twice, with zero added gains. The alternative was to just add a few octets to IPv4 and start using those additional octets once we could reasonably assume that everybody must have transitioned.
Essentially, I completely agree with this guy, at least on IPv6.
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