[aurumque]

I wonder if it could still be usurped by another standard that is somehow more popular. If adoption of that leapfrogs over IPV6 then maybe it will have just been a waypoint along the way.

[jandrese]

What would a new standard do that would make it more popular? IPv6, for all its faults, is designed to be the last Internet Protocol we will ever need.

[aboardRat4]

In the new standard every publicly routable packet will include a cryptographically signed passport number of the responsible person.

Then the government could, for example, limit criminals' access to the internet by mandating that their packets be dropped on most major ISPs, or at least deprioritised.

[iov6throwaway]

It will not. People underestimate the amount of effort went into IPv6 implementations.

[krupan]

This absolutely can and should happen