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I'd like to propose IPv7. Exactly like IPv4, but 48 bit addresses and must accept IPv4 traffic and treat addresses as beginning with 0's for first two octets. You're welcome.


That's more or less what the article says in its first section. Then it goes on to tell why that didn't happen. In short, it isn't that simple.




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