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by jandrese 609 days ago
> write the standard such that all valid IPv4 addresses are also valid IPv6 addresses?

This already exists. 2020:abcd:abcd::192.168.0.1 is a valid IPv6 address. Most applications will parse it just fine.

NAT64 has been around for ages and mostly works, but is pretty ugly so few people want to actually deploy it.