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by DonHopkins 1785 days ago
IPV6 was a colossal mistake, with its 128 bit host addresses.

But IPV4 was also a huge mistake, with its 64 bit host addresses.

We should have stuck with NCP, with its 8 bit host addresses.

Everything started going downhill once there could be more than 256 hosts on the ARPANET.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Control_Program