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by alt227 166 days ago
Apologies maybe slow death was the wrong phrase. I did mean that, but only in the non-mobile space. Obviously mobile device networks have made good use of IPv6 and will continue to.

However In another thread it was argued that when IPv4 addresses become very expensive, that could trigger a big shift to IPv6. I agree with this statement and so IMO it is possible that IPv6 may well become ubiquitous in the future.
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lazide 166 days ago
When usage is increasing rapidly and is literally ~ 50% of the entire planet right now, how is ANY kind of 'death' a useful descriptor?

IPv4 is the one that descriptor belongs on, eh?

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alt227 166 days ago
No I dont agree at all.

Usage is in no way 'rapidly increasing', in fact the google graph everyone is touting around shows that it has taken over 10 years to not even get to 50%. It also shows it is slowing down, the curve is starting to become less steep.

When Maximum possible IPv6 usage is not even at 50% after over a decade and the usage curve is slowing, how can you possibly say that IPv4 is dying and IPv6 usage is rapidly increasing?

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lazide 166 days ago
Oh, now it’s a problem because it’s been about a decade?

So what, another decade and we should be mostly done?

What do you think is a reasonable amount of time to redo the entire world’s networking infrastructure across 200+ countries and 8 something billion people, exactly?

This is an absurd argument, you know that right?

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alt227 166 days ago
> Oh, now it’s a problem because it’s been about a decade?

No, but taking over a decade to not even be half adopted does not count as rapid in my opinion.

> So what, another decade and we should be mostly done?

No, as I have said many many times, the graph is slowing.

> What do you think is a reasonable amount of time to redo the entire world’s networking infrastructure

We dont need to, thats the point. All networking equipment in the world already supports IPv6, so why isnt it at 100% usage and IPv4 is turned off already?

>This is an absurd argument, you know that right?

Who is the fool, the person saying what they think or the person continuing to participate in an argument they consider absurd?

You dont need to make everybody in the world agree with what you are saying, it is ok to have differing opinions. You know that right?

I am done now. I accept that you disagree with me and thats fine. Can you afford the same decency or will you continue to tell me I'm wrong?

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lazide 166 days ago
Hahahahaha
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