> What benefits has ipv6 beside that ipv4 addresses for public servers are in short supply? What more benefits do you need? It's a major issue for many folks,

> What benefits has ipv6 beside that ipv4 addresses for public servers are in short supply? What more benefits do you need? It's a major issue for many folks, especially if you (a) didn't manage to get in early on the IPv4 land rush, or (b) aren't a mega-corp with money to buy a whole bunch of addresses: > Our [American Indian] tribal network started out IPv6, but soon learned we had to somehow support IPv4 only traffic. It took almost 11 months in order to get a small amount of IPv4 addresses allocated for this use. In fact there were only enough addresses to cover maybe 1% of population. So we were forced to create a very expensive proxy/translation server in order to support this traffic. > We learned a very expensive lesson. 71% of the IPv4 traffic we were supporting was from ROKU devices. 9% coming from DishNetwork & DirectTV satellite tuners, 11% from HomeSecurity cameras and systems, and remaining 9% we replaced extremely outdated Point of Sale(POS) equipment. So we cut ROKU some slack three years ago by spending a little over $300k just to support their devices. * https://community.roku.com/t5/Features-settings-updates/It-s-2022-and-still-no-IPv6/m-p/854673/highlight/true#M35732 https://community.roku.com/t5/Features-settings-updates/It-s... * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35047624 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35047624 Do you think we'd have as much mobile/smartphone connectivity without IPv6? T-Mobile US went to IPv6-only on handsets because of exhaustion, and they're only one carrier (in the US).