alt Hacker Newsif it was easier to use and less of a PITA, it wouldn't be taking decades.
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9dev • yesterday at 7:38 AM
If anything, IPv6 is extremely easy to use, especially with SLAAC: On any kind of standard network, you turn on IPv6 on your machine, and, given physical connectivity, bam! You're on the internet.
It only gets complex if you try to micro-manage it.
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The main complexity of IPv6 is still ha I g to maintain an IPv4 installation. The vast majority of non phone devices do not work in an IPv6 world only because CLAT hasn’t been baked into the OS since the very beginning. It still isn’t a first division tenant on Linux servers, desktops, IoT, or windows. I believe OSX integrates it now
Could with approximately zero services requiring IPv6, the collapsing cost of IPv4 addressing, and it makes IPv6 very much a hidden protocol for phones. When I tether off my phone I get an IPv4 address, the phone may well do a 4:6 translate and then something else does a 6:4 translate. That doesn’t matter, I can still open a socket to 1.1.1.1 from my application.
Had IPv4 been transparently supported IPv6 wouldn’t have taken 30 years and a whole new ecosystem (phones) to get partway there.