[wladimir]

Hey, I'm explicitly saying in my post that there is no hurry. It could still take ages. Maybe 20 years. But eventually we need more addresses than IPv4 can provide. Hacks such as NAT will make the IPv4 range a bit more stretchable, but they don't scale and won't hold up forever.

I know what the current state of affairs is. I don't understand why all the "IPv6 is not widely adopted yet so let's rationalize it as if we'll be on IPv4 forever" posts on HN lately. It is a slow, gradual process. If you don't want to worry about it yet then just don't.

Back when 64 bit CPUs were entering the consumer realm, you also had people saying "Man, addresses will take two times as much space and who needs to address that amount of memory? And there are plenty of memory mapping tricks to keep us on 32-bit for a long time"...