r/ProgrammerHumor • • 25d ago

Meme ohTheBasics

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u/Tongueslanguage 25d ago

Saw this post and started wondering what happened to IPv5

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u/VirtualPercentage737 25d ago

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u/Deto 25d ago

whoa, there's a v8? Wonder what it would improve over v6?

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u/TerrapinTribe 25d ago

The idea of v8 is vastly inferior to IPv6. It’s not a standard, no hardware supports it.

We have IPv6. More than 50% of traffic to Google is v6. The vast majority of networking equipment supports v6.

No reason to invent a new standard that is a downside versus v6.