You miss my point they should have extended v4 and not tried to do a totally new standard.
As the register commented "IPv6 was neither designed for small biz nor consumers. IPv6 was designed by big-ticket network engineers bearing global infrastructure and enormous enterprise networks in mind. Learned gentlemen who live in a world where buying IBM and connecting it with Cisco never got anyone fired"
They have reinvented the OSI stack and we know how well that worked in practice ( I was third line for the UK's X.400 so I know what OSI is like)
As the register commented "IPv6 was neither designed for small biz nor consumers. IPv6 was designed by big-ticket network engineers bearing global infrastructure and enormous enterprise networks in mind. Learned gentlemen who live in a world where buying IBM and connecting it with Cisco never got anyone fired"
They have reinvented the OSI stack and we know how well that worked in practice ( I was third line for the UK's X.400 so I know what OSI is like)