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IPv6 has already won. Google and Facebook report 50% or higher IPv6 traffic in the united states. There is absolutely no chance of a replacement at this point

feldrim 5y ago
26 years later, still not being the default while gaining about %50 of only for a couple of giant companies -excluding the fact that most traffic is not the users but many other third parties- I would not call this statistic a win. If I connect to a Wi-Fi in a Starbucks with IPv6 by default or my recently bought mobile line comes with IPv6, then I would say it is a win. It is a huge improvement but the story of the failure is a good topic for academic research for future protocols.
- realityking 5y ago
  > my recently bought mobile line comes with IPv6, then I would say it is a win I’m surprised it doesn’t. In Europe most providers only give you IPv6 and CGNAT IPv4. Even my landline does that.
  - feldrim 5y ago
    It's getting more and more used by time but yes,ts not that common. I'm here in Estonia and the mobile carriers -that I used- use (CGNAT) IPv4.
- detaro 5y ago
  > my recently bought mobile line comes with IPv6 it quite likely does today, IPv6 is common with mobile carriers.
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AtlasBarfed 5y ago
Almost all ipv6 traffic is mobile, which is running under far more totalitarian execution environments (mobile OSs) and centrally controlled addressing. While that is a ipv6 success, that is greenfield. And the telecoms are basically running a huge ipv6 nat when they need ipv4 routing. Which is heretical to ipv6. The issue of migration of existing ipv4 is still sucky. Meanwhile normal desktop OS and infrastructure and consumer routers are (20 years after this article) a disaster.
Andrew_nenakhov 5y ago
Also Google: blocks mail coming from IPv6 space because of spam, effectively making it a non-option for hosted servers.
- eqvinox 5y ago
  They're accepting my mails on IPv6 just fine… are you sure you're not simply missing a PTR record for your IPv6 address? That seems to be the most common rake to step on. (Of course there's a whole bunch of other anti-spam heuristics, but missing PTR is the most common in my limited personal experience.)

feldrim 5y ago

26 years later, still not being the default while gaining about %50 of only for a couple of giant companies -excluding the fact that most traffic is not the users but many other third parties- I would not call this statistic a win. If I connect to a Wi-Fi in a Starbucks with IPv6 by default or my recently bought mobile line comes with IPv6, then I would say it is a win. It is a huge improvement but the story of the failure is a good topic for academic research for future protocols.

realityking 5y ago
> my recently bought mobile line comes with IPv6, then I would say it is a win I’m surprised it doesn’t. In Europe most providers only give you IPv6 and CGNAT IPv4. Even my landline does that.
- feldrim 5y ago
  It's getting more and more used by time but yes,ts not that common. I'm here in Estonia and the mobile carriers -that I used- use (CGNAT) IPv4.
detaro 5y ago
> my recently bought mobile line comes with IPv6 it quite likely does today, IPv6 is common with mobile carriers.

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AtlasBarfed 5y ago

Almost all ipv6 traffic is mobile, which is running under far more totalitarian execution environments (mobile OSs) and centrally controlled addressing. While that is a ipv6 success, that is greenfield. And the telecoms are basically running a huge ipv6 nat when they need ipv4 routing. Which is heretical to ipv6. The issue of migration of existing ipv4 is still sucky. Meanwhile normal desktop OS and infrastructure and consumer routers are (20 years after this article) a disaster.

Andrew_nenakhov 5y ago

Also Google: blocks mail coming from IPv6 space because of spam, effectively making it a non-option for hosted servers.

eqvinox 5y ago
They're accepting my mails on IPv6 just fine… are you sure you're not simply missing a PTR record for your IPv6 address? That seems to be the most common rake to step on. (Of course there's a whole bunch of other anti-spam heuristics, but missing PTR is the most common in my limited personal experience.)