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> It's been a decade and IPv6 has barely entered the zeitgeist of the common internet user. It has not been a decade! I remember printing out the draft spec in
by easytiger 7y ago
> It's been a decade and IPv6 has barely entered the zeitgeist of the common internet user.
It has not been a decade! I remember printing out the draft spec in the late 1990s thinking that I have to get ahead of this curve. Twenty years in the making.
I recall at the time thinking initially that the obscure nomenclature for addressing would be annoying, but that it clearly would be fine. What do I know.
In 2010 hackernews luminaries predicted the ipv6 momentum singlularity here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1236048 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1236048
The fact of the matter is very very large private corporate networks do not need more addressing space. ISPs use CGnats. Most home broadband routers|modems are junk. It is just a mess
- throwawaycert 7y agoMore than a quarter of Google's traffic today is IPv6. So apparently ISP's representing a quarter of their traffic don't consider the marketing oxymoron that is "carrier grade nat" an adequate substitute for IPv6...