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by mvkg 3307 days ago
I was a bit surprised to see that it wasn't published on April 1 and got renewed multiple times.

Some parts of it are laughable such as

       IPv10 support on "all" Internet connected hosts can be deployed
       in a very short time by technology companies developing OSs
       (for hosts and networking devices, and there will be no
       dependence on enterprise users and it is just a software
       development process in the NIC cards of all hosts to allow
       encapsulating both IPv4 and IPv6 in the same IP packet header.
But it does have an interesting take on stateless IPv4 <-> IPv6 communication, specifically IPv4 -> IPv6. Obviously it wouldn't work as described without a full deployment, but it seems like something could be done there.

For instance, if an IPv4-only host wanted to communicate to an IPv6-only host, it could send packets to a well-known NAT46 anycast address with an IP option of the destination host. The NAT46 host could then create the IPv6 packet with the correct destination and IPv4-mapped source.

He suggested using the IPv4 routing table for IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses, which wouldn't be loop-free unless every router was dual stack and did the same thing. However, with what I described, it seems like any dual-stack host (or router) could perform the translation in a loop-free manner.