> until software and hardware has been updated

Yeah, about that part. This is a "now draw the rest of the fucking owl" type of idea.

It's always the same with those "I hope IPv6 were just IPv4 with more octets" proposals on Hacker News, aka Godwin's law of the Internet Protocol.

It turns out when you ignore the hardest part of the problem, you can always make a good-looking proposal!