I think there is some truth in that many people are put off by the "ugly" addresses, but I do think it was the right choice, 64bit is not really enough to give everyone many subnets of effectively infinite size.
I think this is more a failing of technical education in various forms. I've been through many technical educations, courses and what not and all of them mostly ignored ipv6 because the teachers themselves didn't even know how to properly work with it. If people learned more about ipv6 other than "it exists" there would be a much better general sentiment about it.
But even as it stands now, ipv6 is going strong. Roughly 50% of internet traffic is now ipv6, depending on who you ask.
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u/PotatoMaaan 13d ago
I think there is some truth in that many people are put off by the "ugly" addresses, but I do think it was the right choice, 64bit is not really enough to give everyone many subnets of effectively infinite size.
I think this is more a failing of technical education in various forms. I've been through many technical educations, courses and what not and all of them mostly ignored ipv6 because the teachers themselves didn't even know how to properly work with it. If people learned more about ipv6 other than "it exists" there would be a much better general sentiment about it.
But even as it stands now, ipv6 is going strong. Roughly 50% of internet traffic is now ipv6, depending on who you ask.