[mindslight]

Forget DNS. Use an overlay with content routing. Hierarchies suck.

It's extremely hyperbolic to call an ugly syntax a bad "design". But IMO it would have been much nicer if they just reused '.' as in IPv4. ':' seemingly came out of their pie in the sky desire to replace MACs.

Speaking of MACs, every time every time I see some cheap trash gizmo come with its own MAC I'm surprised there isn't address space pressure. I guess that's due to having 16 more bits as well as being non-aggregable.

[kortilla]

Yeah, that extra 16 bits is a game changer. The whole v6 debacle wouldn’t have happened if v4 was 48 bits.

It’s funny, there is an interview with Vint Cerf where he mentions the choice of 32 bit address space for ipv4 was essentially pulled out of a hat and it could just as easily have been 48/64/24.