News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on IPv6 Traffic Crosses the 50% Mark for the First Time. Parent comment

Re:IPv6 Traffic Crosses the 50% Mark for the First Time by lxgr on Thursday April 16, 2026 @10:34AM (#47793585)
Why would we keep around a whole separate Internet? Dual stack was always only intended for the transition period.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:IPv6 Traffic Crosses the 50% Mark for the First Time by g8oz on Thursday April 16, 2026 @11:22AM (#47794556)
It's very hard to get rid of old standards.

"The past is never dead. It's not even past"

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:IPv6 Traffic Crosses the 50% Mark for the First Time by lxgr on Thursday April 16, 2026 @12:47PM (#47796112)
Of course there's an incredibly long tail here, but in the big picture, "nobody except some people maintaining a few legacy systems ever need to learn to work with this protocol anymore" is practically the same thing.
[ Parent | on HN ]