Re: I STRONGLY OPPOSE ipv8 proposal.

Sotrdg,

Thank you for your words. The goal is not to deprecate ipv6. I believe most
of the mobile carriers will continue to use their ipv6 infrastructure.

IPv8 is meant to fix the management issues in ipv4.

It's to fix the global address structure.

Ipv6 can be as easily intercepted and blocked as can ipv4. So it's not the
protocol allowing you access. It is the lack of implementation.

When ipv6 grows to a meaningful level, China will add it to the great Wall.

So with that said, ipv8 is not a social political issue, it's a technical
issue.

Jamie








On Fri., Apr. 17, 2026, 1:01 p.m. sotrdg sotrdg, <[email protected]> wrote:

> 1. IPv8 makes Governments across the globe much easier to block IP and
> censor internet. I am from China and i use ipv6 to bypass the great
> firewall. ipv8 makes this much easier to block since it reuses existing
> ipv4 (which is blocked for sure) and its address space is very small. this
> ipv8 proposal is just another attempt of big tech and governments around
> the world tries to kill open internet.
>
> 2. Implementing ipv8 means deprecating ipv6 which is a huge problem.  it
> is not really solving anything
>
> 3. it is not easy to implement ipv8 at all. Android OEMs locks down
> bootloaders and not mentioning routers too. That means billions of devices
> immediately e-waste since they will not get updated to support ipv8. It is
> just another N+1 problem.
>
> 4. ipv8's address space is WAY too small. 2^64 may be enough for
> representing a machine but it does not count things like virtual machines
> which might use tons of ip addresses for a very good reason.
>
> 5. To say ipv6 is not adopted is very untrue since i am using ipv6 every
> day to bypass internet censorship. All my traffic, even this email comes
> from ipv6. this is just completely bs proposal
>