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Internet-Draft draft-sun-single-stack-100-50-01.txt is now available.

   Title:   The Single-Stack 100/50 Principle: Formal Definitions for IPv4 Retirement in Dual-Stack Networks
   Author:  Charles C. Sun
   Name:    draft-sun-single-stack-100-50-01.txt
   Pages:   19
   Dates:   2026-09-02

Abstract:

   The Single-Stack 100/50 Principle defines two independent, formally
   derivable consequences of retiring the IPv4 protocol stack in a dual-
   stack (IPv4 + IPv6) network environment: (1) 100% elimination of
   executable attacks attributable to IPv4 under the document's
   definition, and (2) an exact 50% reduction in the count of
   concurrently exposed network-layer protocol-stack surfaces when IPv4
   is retired, stated by the Principle as a minimum structural floor.
   The analysis is bounded to the functional Layer 3 scope and parameter
   universe U_3 defined in this document.  Within that premise, Axiom 0
   and Axioms 1-15 stipulate protocol independence, operational state
   transitions, traffic termination, addressing/routing domains,
   protocol-associated control and resolution functions, header-
   processing paths, and protocol-specific vulnerability execution.
   Theorem I follows by removal of the necessary IPv4 Layer 3 execution
   precondition for every IPv4-attributable attack.  Theorem II follows
   by direct enumeration of two concurrently exposed protocol-stack
   surfaces before retirement and one after retirement.  Neither theorem
   depends on empirical attack volume, incident frequency, or
   statistical inference, and neither theorem claims that IPv6 is
   inherently more secure than IPv4.

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