On 2024-11-10 19:11, Lew Wolfgang wrote:
Hi Folks,
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They have developed a method to measure IPv6 compatibility from the user's perspective. Their measurements show that after more than 25 years of IPv6 only 41% of users are IPv6 enabled, on a global basis. They show a trend line where if the adoption rate is linear 100% will be reached about the year 2045.
Yet they show that the adoption rate for the US hit about 51% in 2019 but has remain flat since then! (this is being written in Nov 2024)
The USA can survive with IpV4 because a very large spool was assigned to it. But other countries have less addresses per inhabitant that you have; some countries have not enough at all, and are IPv6 by default. ...
This all implies that IPv4 will always be with us. IPv6 will increase globally to some point, but will level off as it has in the US. This of course is anathema to IP purists who claim that the Internet was designed on the principle that every device has a globally unique address. But in reality, is this really necessary?
It allows features that were initially designed but made impossible by NAT to work again. ... -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 15.5 (Laicolasse))