I saw the rfc for IPV8 recently... It makes so much more sense than ipv6...and is backward compatible with ipv4...
Basically they're proposing prefacing 4 more octets into an IP address, so 172.16.5.1 would become 0.0.0.0.172.16.5.1
Any existing IPs would just assume the 0.0.0.0 in front of them...
Again...solves the problem on much the same way.
True, good point. AN RFC...
To be fair, I never got IPV6... was too confusing. I've always been able to rattle off IPv4 addresses in my sleep. IPV6 just wasn't as natural.