IPv8 is just a reactionary response to IPv6 not being "IPv4 with larger addresses" like people who know IPv4 well would prefer.

There would be no reason to adopt it if IPv6 were adopted.

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hdgvhicv an hour ago | parent [-]

Yet IPv6 hasn’t been adopted. For decades.

Because it wasn’t implemented transparently at the OS. I can’t plug in to my ip6 only network and reach an ip4 address because end user OSes don’t implement clat transparently, even today in 2026, let alone 20 years ago.

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jrmg 3 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Yet IPv6 hasn’t been adopted.

Well over half of Google’s traffic is IPv6 in the USA, and it’s recently become over 50% of all Google’s traffic worldwide at weekends.

https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html#tab=per-... https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html

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adw an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

> Yet IPv6 hasn’t been adopted.

news to literally anyone on a mobile internet connection (which is most internet connections!)

	▲	alexpotato 6 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I learned recently that France IPv6 adoption is also very high.