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> The day of reckoning still looms – it’s just been pushed out as the major Internet players have developed ingenious ways to stretch those available numbers.
by jfasi 13y ago
> The day of reckoning still looms – it’s just been pushed out as the major Internet players have developed ingenious ways to stretch those available numbers.
To me, this indicates something either broken about IPv6 or a lessened severity of the IPv4 problem: If it's better to apply bandaids to IPv4 than to roll out IPv6, then either IPv6 is not easy and flexible enough to be a viable alternative, or the problems faced by IPv4 are not as intractable as was suggested.
- rqebmm 13y agoIt's both. IPv6 is not an easy migration, and people already have decades of experience squeezing the most they can out of IPv4, so the short-term solutions have just been to just squeeze IPv4 a little harder until everyone working on IPv6 gets it fully operational.