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What happened is they changed a bunch of things about the protocol because they thought it would be a very forced adoption. Instead, it caused lagging adoption

• zymhan 7y ago
  On the other hand, you really do not get many chances to re-architect a universally used network protocol. It's important to make changes with a long-lasting impact.
• zamadatix 7y ago
  I hear this a lot but being in the networking but the only 3 complaints I actually hear in the field are "those addresses look a lot harder to type out", "our device doesn't support IPv6 (at all/fully)", and "can we hold off on that project another year or will things start breaking before then?". Not once has any of the protocol additions that always get talked about been a stopping point. I finally got the opportunity to roll it out on some of our guest wireless networks, it was literally a matter of assigning some space, flipping some settings on, and making sure Google still loads. Ironically the techs did complain about the addresses looking funny in the Firewall logging.