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> But at this point we are at almost 50% of traffic, so why stop. You could say: at this point we are at only 50% of traffic, so why not rollback? In the end,
by pif 3y ago
> But at this point we are at almost 50% of traffic, so why stop.
You could say: at this point we are at only 50% of traffic, so why not rollback?
In the end, IPv4 is still working fine. Maybe IPv6 was just a huge error while the status quo was already good enough.
- api 3y agoIPv4 isn't working fine unless the only use case for the Internet is pure client-server access to centralized cloud. Even there it's not working fine because cloud is running out of IP space. IPv4 address space is just too small. Full stop.
- pif 3y agoWe have learnt how to cope with the small address space of IPv4. Full stop.
- Dagger2 3y agoThat doesn't mean the problems have gone away. It means we spend time and effort working around them, and many things just don't work at all. It remains true that v4 is too small and that it isn't working fine. That's been the case for so long that a lot of people grew up with the problems and can't even see them because they're so used to them, but the problems are still there.