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		growse on Sept 18, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: AWS IPv4 Estate Now Worth $4.5B > which is the only thing people actually wanted from IPv6. I'm not sure this is true. There's a lot of warts in the way IPv4 was put together (ARP is a tire-fire of badness for example), and the opportunity was taken to implement those in a better way. Lots of network engineers are very happy about that.

gemstones on Sept 18, 2023 [–]

Good thing they can benefit from those changes, now that we’re decades in! Can you imagine if they had to manage ARP still?

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