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IPv6 is the only way forward

https://ankshilp.in/posts/for-the-love-of-internet/
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Reading the comments, it looks like some people dismiss IPv6 just because they need to sit down and learn a couple of new things.
Yeah, it's always the same with IPv6 discussions. The main points being:

  1. IPv6 addresses are too long to remember
  2. IPv6 doesn't need NAT and people are uncomfortable with their devices having a public address as they see NAT as an additional layer of security
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I dismiss IPv6 because my ISP doesn't support it.
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IPv4 has been "in crisis" for the entire 20 years I've worked in tech and we seem to be managing alright. Not to say things can't be better or we shouldn't try to improve. But I'll be surprised if v4 isn't still the default for most use cases in another 20 years.
That's because the Internet is basically broadcast TV 2.0 so no one cares about having public IPv4's at home as long as they can get to their memes and streaming. Great job, we took something that was meant to be a next frontier in humanity and let anyone connect with anyone else without gatekeepers/intermediaries and turned it 21st century brainrot troughs. Perhaps a society not in slow intellectual decline would have chosen otherwise.
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