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Re:IP addresses and routing by magicalhippo on Thursday July 26, 2018 @07:07AM (#17616485)
I forgot to expand on the DAB analogy. My point was that they both tried to solve a problem nobody really had, and as such took over 20 years to really start to gain traction. By that time, the problem space had changed drastically.

For DAB, the rise of mobile data means far fewer listens to radio. Any audio quality increase turned out to be moot (they added more channels instead, besides streaming services has similar or better quality).

For IPv6, we now have a huge amount of actual clients (primarily mobile devices) with relatively few actual servers. In addition, security means companies use VPN or similar. This means the pool of devices who needs to be globally addressable is much smaller than it was. However the mobile devices can hop from network to network, and this isn't something IPv6 addresses any better than IPv4 (they'd still get a new address).

That's just my uninformed POV of course and I'm probably a bit harsh on IPv6 given all the frustrations I've had trying to get it working.

Re:IP addresses and routing by sedachv on Thursday July 26, 2018 @11:13PM (#17623185)
> However the mobile devices can hop from network to network, and this isn't something IPv6 addresses any better than IPv4 (they'd still get a new address).

IPv6 is designed to address this use case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_IPv6

Re:IP addresses and routing by fulafel on Friday July 27, 2018 @04:55AM (#17624535)
In all fairness, it doesn't look like MIP is getting widely deployed any time soon. There is a currently active IETF group working on improvements, who knows, maybe it will get traction at some point: https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/dmm/about/