[Dagger2]

Quite hard, actually, since that's mostly what v6 already does and you can see how many things need to change to accommodate it. Most other parts of v6's design are the same as v4, so it's not really very complicated compared to what we've already got.

(Of course v6 adds more than just one octet, since one additional octet wouldn't be enough even for the current size of the Internet, let alone for future growth. It would be really stupid to go through all this effort, only to have to turn around and do it all again immediately afterwards because you forgot to add enough the first time around.)

[roamerz]

Yeah I don’t buy the argument that we would have to do it again immediately. Unless i’m wrong- which I may be - adding an octet would increase the number of IP addresses x 255 give or take. Using the excuse of running out of addresses to do an unnecessary wholesale change is my definition of really stupid.