alt Hacker NewsWith you on “IPv6 only will become a thing for many clients”, but servers (or at least load balancers) will absolutely not stay v4-reachable only.
They’re already not. For example, I believe you won’t get an iOS app approved for distribution by Apple these days if it doesn’t work on v6-only clients.
> With you on “IPv6 only will become a thing for many clients"...
That's not what I said. I said that having a globally-routable IPv4 address assigned to a LAN's edge router will stop being a thing. Things like CGN (or some other sort of translation system) will be the norm for all residential users.
> ...but servers (or at least load balancers) will absolutely not stay v4-reachable only.
Some absolutely will. There's a lot of software and hardware out there that's chugging along doing exactly what the entity that deployed it needs it to do... but -for one of handful of reasons- will never, ever be updated ever again. This is fine. The absolute best thing any programmer can do is to create a system that one never has to touch ever again.