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Good points. And brings out the problem with IPv6- there is no sector pushing IPv6, because no sector sees the benefits. Question is why does no sector see it

• vetinari 8y ago
  With IPv6, there are mismatched incentives. There are parties that would have to do the investments and another parties would benefit. For ISPs, it means investments with no benefits. They do it only once their CGNAT is too overloaded or on other sign of running out of IPv4. When they do it, in the simplest and cheapest way possible, which the informed customers see as worse service, so naturally they want to avoid it. IPv6 would help network application developers, so they could do more or do what they do now with less, but they have no impact on investments ISPs would have to do. Then there are parties, that have working IPv4 infrastructure, feel no pressure caused by lack of IPv4, and migration would mean just expenses with zero benefits. Exactly like companies that ran login forms over http, up until browsers started to warn users. That was the incentive, that caused them to switch to https.