Yes, but the compatibility is very very easy to support for both hardware vendors, softwares, sysadmins etc. Some things might need a gentle stroke (mostly just enlarge a single bitfield) but after that everything just works, hardware, software, websites, operators.
A protocol is a social problem, and ipv6 fails exactly there.
Yes, but the compatibility is very very easy to support for both hardware vendors, softwares, sysadmins etc. Some things might need a gentle stroke (mostly just enlarge a single bitfield) but after that everything just works, hardware, software, websites, operators.
A protocol is a social problem, and ipv6 fails exactly there.