On Sat, Nov 20, 2021 at 9:08 AM Matthew Walster <[email protected]> wrote:
[...] > I'm just saying that screaming "IPv6 is the answer, deploy it" is actually > forgetting that it doesn't actually reduce IPv4 usage in and of itself, which > is the goal. I don't think that is the goal. Or, in any case, it's not the most significant goal. I think the end goal is to make sure that everyone on the planet who wants it, can have reliable Internet communications. They should be able to do anything and everything possible on the Internet, whatever that is. There are likely to be 10b people on the planet soon enough. Fitting everyone into a 32-bit address space might well be possible but it is unlikely to be comfortable. That's why I think putting effort into IPv6 deployment is worthwhile. It should make everyone's life a bit simpler than trying to debug what's going on through multiple layers of translation.
