The article is actually written informatively, but for anyone else who may have assumed from the title that this is some failing of Unicode--it is not, the goal of Unicode is to encode all human writing. This includes "nonsense" glyphs that have been widely used or interchanged between computer systems, including the (in)famous "RIGHT ANGLE WITH DOWNWARDS ZIGZAG ARROW" (⍼).
ernest314
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the rich and poor alike are not allowed to sleep under bridges, steal bread, etc. ...
we both thought of the same article haha
I saw the RFC for IPv8 recently
nitpick, but I would say "an RFC", as there's been a number of these over the years
you've gotten a couple responses so far, but I think the central issue is that "complexity" isn't the problem with IPv6 (and one could certainly argue that IPv6 is actually simpler)--the problem is compatibility. This article lays out the issue very well, and also links to this article (which is a more specific look at the IPv8 proposal you refer to). Both point to the same conclusion, which is that fundamentally--on first principles--existing hardware does not know how to handle the upgrade, which will require some sort of dual-stacking, which is the issue IPv6 currently has. (Not its technical merit.)
in an ideal world, ipv6 would solve that problem...
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*we have a typographical source that claims it means azimuth, but no known usages of it
I think Wikipedia's summary of "unconfirmed branding" is a fair description.