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Should IPv6 Have A Different Name?
Posted by: Jordi on Monday, February 04, 2013 - 11:24 PM
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A footnote to our earlier discussion on why IPv6 hasn’t been widely adopted: the numbering of the newer version is clearly designed to suggest that it’s an improved successor to IPv4. But is that name actually logical and helpful?
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