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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.




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