Re:Enabling IPv6 support for IPv4-only apps on Linux
by hot_gril on Thursday October 05, 2023 @06:55PM
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Yes, it wouldn't allow more users, which would've been fine back then. They'd focus on getting everyone onto the v6 protocol first, then open up the new addresses for use. That's the transition period that never happened.
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Re:Enabling IPv6 support for IPv4-only apps on Linux
by Macha on Thursday October 05, 2023 @07:31PM
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The only motivation for the ISPs etc., who you need to get onboard, is to get more users. This is why IPv6 adoption has been soaring in the last 3-4 years when there's large new use cases that cannot economically get addresses in the volume they would require and didn't happen when IPv4 addresses were more freely available.
The only other way to get them to invest in alternatives to IPv4 before IPv4 stopped meeting their business needs would have been via regulation.