Keith Moore wrote:
It means it's IPv6 which is damaging the Internet.
Except that the (v4) Internet is already doing its best to damage
itself. So the choice is between a thoroughly brain-damaged
v4 Internet that is continually getting worse, and a somewhat
less brain-damaged v6 Internet that has at least some chance
of having a few things fixed
You are wrong. While IPv4 is demonstratively usable, IPv6 along
with ND is too bloated that it is totally unusable.
For example, packet too big for multicast PMTUD causes ICMPv6
implosions which may be used for DoS.
While IPv4 guarantees that 516B payload receivable by any host,
IPv6 can't. Because of indefinitely length header options, some
of which (e.g. options for mobility) are inserted without
trasnport/application control, there is no room, not even 1B,
reserved for payload.
And, the worst problem is that 16B address, thanks to poor
estimation of RFC1715, is impossible to remember.
Masataka Ohta
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