> > That sounds like only using 6to4 addresses until the entire internet supports IPv6. > Unfortunately there were NEVER enough IPv4 addresses to actually do that. We > were effectively out of IPv4 addresses before we started. >
People tend to forget that TCP/IP was not the only routing protocol out there all those years ago. What if OSI or one of the others had prospered instead ? IPv4 kind of morphed into the Internet as we know it more it more from good luck than good planning I would say. Things could have been a lot worse ! To name a few - IPX, X25, Banyan Vines, DECnet and even Appletalk! Ovbiously many of these could not grow into the "internet" but.....
