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by sparky_ 3751 days ago
This feels optimistically premature.

Sure, it's been superseded, and it's great to move the ball forward. But somehow I think this legacy technology will be in use for a long, long time.
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ra1n85 3751 days ago
Agreed.

The few use cases I see that have a hard requirement for IPv6 typically involve arbitrary drivers like government regulations for unique addressing. I have yet to see much demand for IPv6 driven by functionality.

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rmetzler 3751 days ago
I think the same, IPv4 isn't going anywhere soon.
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lisivka 3751 days ago
Sorry, but containerization and SDN needs addresses. I can spawn dozen of networks on my computer using docker/flannel/kubernetes, but I have only 1 white IPv4 address for all of them, so I need to use NAT and step-stone server. I have no such limitation with IPv6: each host has it own white IPv6 address and addressing becomes flat. Sorry, but I have no choice, so I use IPv6 today.
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