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Yeah, that's been my theory for awhile: that IPv4 addresses are effectively a currency, and that a move to IPv6 would devalue that currency. A disproportionate
by elihu 6y ago
Yeah, that's been my theory for awhile: that IPv4 addresses are effectively a currency, and that a move to IPv6 would devalue that currency. A disproportionate amount of that currency is held by companies and institutions based in the United States, and in many cases they're the same companies and institutions that one might otherwise would expect to be responsible for much of the work of transitioning to IPv6.
Meanwhile, Asia has a relative scarcity of IPv4 addresses and so is (as far as I know) ahead of the curve because their incumbents have less to lose.
- laurent92 6y agoSorry for the stupid question but each time I got allocated an IPv6 address, I was allocated a /124 subnetwork (16 IPs) and not a single IP. How is IPv6 not going to be in shortage if even a small random actor like me gets allocated many IPs for each server?
- dragonwriter 6y agoThe IPv6 address space has 2^128 addresses. If you assign 2^4 addresses to every actual node, that still supports 2^124 nodes. There's about 2^33 people on the planet, so that still supports about 2^91 nodes nodes per person. A shortage isn't likely.