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umanwizard01/02/20261 replyview on HN

Er… not at all. NAT and ipv6 are both very widely used, with IPv6 adoption steadily growing over time.


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alt22701/02/2026

Only due to the mobile device space. It will not take off outside of Wireless telco networks.

Take a look at the IPv6 Google graph that everyone loves so much:

https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html

You can clearly see an initial steep spike to the curve where mobile adoption was new and fierce, and then the curve starts slowly becoming less steep over the last 10 years. It will peter out and remain steady when mobile device adoption reaches critical mass.

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