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Sooner or later, you will have to support IPv6. May as well slowly start testing bits and pieces, and avoid doing it in a rush later on.



I'm not sure I will have to.

So far, nobody said IPv4 will be turned off.

Maybe it will work for another 1000 years?

Railroads have been around for over 2000 years and are still going strong. Despite cars and planes.

Postal service has been going on for 4000 years. Since the times of the pharaohs! And It's still going strong, too. Despite phone, email and WhatsApp.


> Railroads have been around for over 2000 years and are still going strong. Despite cars and planes.

Rail is vastly superior to both planes and cars in many circumstances, if done right.

> Postal service has been going on for 4000 years. Since the times of the pharaohs! And It's still going strong, too.

With significant upgrades to both the transport and addressing layers :)


No - but I think at some point, you or your customers will see benefits in IPv6, or your clients may require it by policy (some of mine do). No rush, just saying, it takes time, may as well start with bits and pieces now.

As a provider, the main benefit I've seen is that every user has a roughly unique IP. It's easier to audit things. It's really messy when lots of users are behind CGNat. Another benefit, eventually, is the cost of IPv4 space (but admittedly not a big problem now).


>I'm not sure I will have to.

It's less likely that you will do so at a "customer" request, rather it will be ISP/Hosting provider that will start to charge you evermore increasing fees to rent your IP address. The the Ipv4 space gets more competitive you will see the fees for routable IPv4 address go up; and conveniently there will be "discounts" to go ipv6. That's when I imagine most businesses will make the switch.


Not many wide-guage railroads left in the UK now though, despite probably being better.




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