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by nextweek2 3758 days ago
The reasons for IPv6 should be obvious by now, most importantly you are future proofing your service/product. Saying I don't need to deploy IPv6 is the same mentality that kept the world using Internet Explorer 6 for over half a decade, yes it works as is but it could be better.

Plus do you want to live in a world where something as basic as an IP address costs you an annual fee?

You'll also provide a faster service ahead of your competition:

http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/blog/2015/04/facebo...

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2983996/internet/ipv6-w...

To be honest, IPv6 isn't exactly hard for a lot of project. As buyers we just have to add it as a purchasing requirement. The real burden is on the ISPs and cloud providers.