Comment by fruitworks
5 days ago
I don't think so. It would be more confusion because no one will know if a network is ipv4 or ipv4+, leading to edge case bugs and confusion and people will similarly be lazy and choose to only implement ipv4 knowing it will always be reverse compatible and the cost is transferred to the consumer.
Plus, it's only 2048x the address space. It's within the realm of possibility that we will need to upgrade again once this place is swarming with robots.
x2048 is a lot though! Maybe we should let the robots figure out their own solution, rather than trying to make every atom on Earth individually addressable :)