alt Hacker NewsIpv6 was a protocol engineered in isolation from the social / political environment it had to be adopted in.
A successor to ipv4 wasnt a technical issue. duh, use longer addresses. The problem was social.
It's a miracle it was used at all
What's annoying about ipv6 discussions is that the ipv6 people are incredibly condescending when the problems of its adoption were engineered by them.
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nulbyte • last Saturday at 12:00 AM
The problem of IPv6 adoption in the US was largely engineered by major ISPs not caring while hardware manufacturers take their cues from major ISPs.
Exactly. IPv6 was developed in the ivory towers where it was still assumed that everyone wanted to be a full participant of the internet.
But the social/political environment was that everyone just wants to be a passive consumer, paying monthly fees to centralized hosts to spoon-feed them content through an algorithm. For that, everyone being stuck behind IPv4 CG-NAT and not being able to host anything without being gatekept by the cloud providers is actually a feature and not a bug.