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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
pq1r@tech.lgbt ("Arik") wrote:
@kirtai @soatok There can't be an organised transition, since there's just no way to force the Internet at large to transition to another protocol.
But today, finally, after 27 years since its drafting and almost 9 years of it being a proper standard, it's ubiquitous at the OS software stack level, at least for anything that's not a cheapo IoT device (which is a bit ironic since IPv6 was supposed to solve the emergence of a multitude of IoT devices).
My ISP provides IPv6 out of the box and when I check my currently established connections on this box, I only have IPv6 connections to addresses external to my local network. Pretty cool.
I think the only reason IPv6 is not adapted sooner is because we keep inventing ways to avoid doing it because of some perceived need for backward compatibility. I think that this is a self perpetuating problem - hosts won't configure for IPv6 because IPv4 still exists, and that keeps the demand for IPv4 going.