The world in which IPv6 was a good design | Hacker News
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A Hacker News discussion pushed back on an article claiming IPv6 was well designed.
Commenters focused on routing, mobility, connection handling, and trust across protocol layers.
They highlighted limits in mobile IP, connection hijacking risks, and address-based authentication.
The debate also touched on whether higher-layer tools like QUIC can compensate for these gaps.



