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Re:The Ripe NCC Has Run Out of IPv4 Addresses by geofft on Monday November 25, 2019 @11:10PM (#21635592)
Not just incumbents. Have you seen a single startup that uses IPv6 for all their internal networking (running NAT on their internet uplink if needed)?

If every single incumbent and every single newcomer is dragging their feet on IPv6, maybe, just maybe, the problem isn't every single engineer in the industry, the problem is IPv6.

Theoretically we could have had a straightforward extension of IPv4 to a longer address length and the exact same design, but some architecture astronauts took over the IETF and they think it's more valuable to push their weird redesign of the internet than to actually solve IPv4 address exhaustion.

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Re:The Ripe NCC Has Run Out of IPv4 Addresses by jachee on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @12:15AM (#21635796)
This sounds a lot like "These newfangled automobiles are scaring the horses!"

The situation feels like chicken-and-egg to me. If I had the option to use IPv6 at home, I'd be on it 100%... as-is, there's little motivation to move off of v4 internally since I'd have to NAT/tunnel to get to the v6 internet over Fios. That said, most of my link-local intranet traffic is on the fe80:: network, because that's what avahi and mDNS prefer as answers.

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