and what about the protocol bytes that go over the wire - you know, the most important and hardest to change part?
There've been several proposals to make "IPv4 but bigger addresses". All of them are just as hard to deploy as IPv6. You still need to upgrade all your routers and you still need to run two parallel networks.
There've been several proposals to make "IPv4 but bigger addresses". All of them are just as hard to deploy as IPv6. You still need to upgrade all your routers and you still need to run two parallel networks.