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by pocksuppet 39 days ago
It's not really relevant in this case since one endpoint is a massive server farm.
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hnav 39 days ago
It is because most of their complexity is in routing packets. With IPv6 you can just have the thing handling the conversation directly addressable by the client. The last 64 bits of a v6 let you have billions of instances in a region.
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