i could almost understand why there might be an expansion of IP addresses to 64 bits, but ipv6 just leaped right ahead to 128. and then everyone who gets one, gets 64 bits of addresses.

*facepalm*.

is it really any wonder the shit hasn't ever got integrated?

i propose we go one step back to ipv5 and make 64 bit address numbers.

ipv4 = 4,294,967,296

fair enough, that's only like half an address per human.

ipv6 =3.402823669×10³⁸

um, why?. let me expand that just so you can see:

340,282,366,900,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

ipv5 with 64 bit addresses:

18,446,744,070,000,000,000

2305843008 addresses per person.

so why would we need all those extra zeros for again?