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> We are stuck with ipv4 for decades, aren't we?

This was always going to be the case, even with more speedy adoption op IPv6. It's also not really a problem.

Making services just available for IPv6 is going to be a recipe for disaster of the service, you've now made the service unavailable for 80-90% of your audience, and they can't do a thing to fix it (their ISP has to). You need to be better than start-up-era Google, Facebook, YouTube or Netflix to push through that and force ISPs to adopt IPv6 to support you. Basically impossible.

Forced adoption is a much better model. Apple forcing iOS apps to work on only IPv6 connections if they want to get into the app store probably is one of the largest drivers of adoption by businesses small and large, and IaaS providers especially.



You're locking out 67% according to Google's latest figures.

51% in the USA.

Still too many to make it practical, but getting there.


That's good to hear :) I had numbers from a good while ago in my head then.


Given that ipv6 makes it much easier to track individual devices, I'm sure ad companies would be happy to have it deployed. I think Google could strongarm isps into supporting ipv6.


You are behind the times by at least 12 years. Look up "IPv6 privacy extension"

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4941


Closer to 20 years: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3041

To give you some idea of the time frame: Windows XP uses privacy addresses.




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