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by anonym29 779 days ago
Every service I run for all time will be exclusively ipv4. Ipv6 gets a heckler's veto from me for trying to do too much.

Give me an addressing scheme and absolutely NOTHING ELSE - just like IPv4 - and I'll consider it. IPv6 does an order of magnitude more than just this one thing, and therefore is too complex to be a replacement as it adds a bunch of anti-features that I don't want anywhere near any of my networks for any reason ever.

I am a permanent rejecter of all ipv6, both as a client and a server.

For every downvote this post gets, I'm going to increase the number of sockpuppet acconts I automate in my crusade against ipv6 in all public forums by 1 order of magnitude. Each downvote will multiply the number of voices standing in opposition to your own desired outcome coming from my system by ten.

Don't like it? Propose a better standard that fixes the address space problem without adding layers of shit on top of it next time.

Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to each for lunch, and for this particular subject, I can (and will) make more virtual anti-ipv6 wolves than there are pro-ipv6 sheep that are real humans.

Don't like that? Demand a better governance system than democracy.

3 comments

Like it or not this is the way forward and you might as well get used to it.
the very notion of technology factually implies that it never gets less complex as it iterates upon itself. reminds me of the rhetorical ponderance: how many humans did it take to invent the pencil eraser? (and somehow your post also calls to my mind the woeful Luddites! but i digress...)

pray tell who, my good man, are you railing against?

> a bunch of anti-features that I don't want anywhere near any of my networks for any reason ever

Is there a good write-up on IPv6 anti-features?