Real-old-timer's "solution" - start moving major DNS servers, search engine crawlers, Gmail web pages, bank payment system gateways, etc. to those addresses. People fix sh*t fast when the suffering is on their end.
Similarly I've been advocating that a few major routers should simply drop all IPv4 for one minute at noon UTC. Next month, make it two minutes. IPv6 adoption would skyrocket.
Needs to happen during American daytime, the US doesn't care until it affects them (which is exactly why it's taken so long to move off IPv4, the US has plenty of addresses).
You think that’s why it’s taken so long to move off of IPv4? Surely it can’t be _anything_ else, like lagging support for IPv6 in newer network routing protocols, bug related to those implementations with IPv6, or sometimes no support for IPv6 at all. Similarly for systems and applications that just have no concept of IPv6 at all. To single out the US as the reason why we have not moved off of IPv4 is laughable, the US has a pretty significant adoption of IPv6.
> You think that’s why it’s taken so long to move off of IPv4? Surely it can’t be _anything_ else, like lagging support for IPv6 in newer network routing protocols, bug related to those implementations with IPv6, or sometimes no support for IPv6 at all. Similarly for systems and applications that just have no concept of IPv6 at all.
Who do you think is making those poor protocols and buggy implementations? People who are affected by IPv4 address exhaustion - which is most of the non-US world - know how important IPv6 is and prioritise it. People who aren't affected and don't know anyone who's affected - which is people in the US - don't care (and I don't think this is some deep moral failing - it's normal and natural to not care about an issue that doesn't affect you), treat it as an afterthought, and the poor level of support you see is the result of that.
I think what would help is treating IPv6 as the new default. IPv6 is now good enough that can use it for IPv6-only network with NAT64/DNS64 at the edges for IPv4.
Businesses are the big holdouts in the US. They have existing complicated networks and address allocations, and don't see the need for an upgrade.
> I think what would help is treating IPv6 as the new default. IPv6 is now good enough that can use it for IPv6-only network with NAT64/DNS64 at the edges for IPv4.
That's already happening on new networks that need a lot of addresses (e.g. most big mobile carriers do this). IPv6 is pretty heavily used, but like most infrastructure you don't notice it until it breaks.
> Businesses are the big holdouts in the US. They have existing complicated networks and address allocations, and don't see the need for an upgrade.
"Businesses" is too broad a category. But fundamentally anyone who has plenty of addresses and isn't feeling the squeeze has no real incentive to upgrade, so why would they.
