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Re:Internet protocols are changing by hinkley on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @03:54PM (#15909350)
That graph has a couple doglegs that make it look exponential.

The last dogleg was January 2015. And since then it’s been linear (with a little stall this month) at about 5% of the Internet converting per year. That’s another 15 years to convert the rest, unless there’s a new dog leg up.

Also percentages don’t work the way humans think they do. Especially when the number of devices is constantly climbing. That may just indicate that some fraction of new hardware is ipv6 but little old hardware is being updated.

We may well have ~2 billion machines on ipv4 pretty much indefinitely, slowly being diluted by addition of new hardware.

Re:Internet protocols are changing by pfranz on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @09:07PM (#15911440)
Agreed. I say IPv6 is inevitable, but it's not like the IPv4 addresses will expire.

The economics going forward will be interesting. I've seen some low-end VPSes charge a lower rate for machines that are IPv6-only.

Re:Internet protocols are changing by mavendependency on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @03:58AM (#15913003)
Cloudflare enabled domains can tunnel ipv6-only hosts for ipv4 clients.