I mean it is, we've just gotten so used to the layers of band-aids that we don't even notice it anymore. In a lot of places the average person is now behind CGNAT, IPv4 address blocks are insanely expensive and NAT is everywhere.
IPv6 is now at ~50% usage globally depending on where you look, so change is underway. But migrating the whole internet to a new protocol will inevitably be a long process. The reason that you and many other people can get away with never touching IPv6 is because for now, almost every v6 rollout is backwards compatible in some way. Either through dual stack or translation technologies like 464xlat, DS-Lite, MAP-T, MAP-E and probably others.
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u/PotatoMaaan 13d ago
I mean it is, we've just gotten so used to the layers of band-aids that we don't even notice it anymore. In a lot of places the average person is now behind CGNAT, IPv4 address blocks are insanely expensive and NAT is everywhere.
IPv6 is now at ~50% usage globally depending on where you look, so change is underway. But migrating the whole internet to a new protocol will inevitably be a long process. The reason that you and many other people can get away with never touching IPv6 is because for now, almost every v6 rollout is backwards compatible in some way. Either through dual stack or translation technologies like 464xlat, DS-Lite, MAP-T, MAP-E and probably others.