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  • FTA:

    >Individual economies such as India, Viet Nam, and Saudi Arabia exhibit adoption curves that differ markedly from the global average. As the APNIC Labs data shows, this global trend does not necessarily reflect the experience of individual economies.

    >APNIC’s own measurement records a 42% worldwide IPv6 capability (Figure 2). That’s a substantial difference, which also needs clarifying."

    The nuance is that IPv6 is growing faster in developing countries with poorer economies. I'm guessing this is because building modern IPv6 network from scratch is cheaper & more efficient than acquiring scarce and expensive IPv4 addresses. This is a major advantage for newer providers in growing economies.

    So while the Google is showing it at 50%, APNIC's weighted global measurement shows it at 42%.

    by Jerry2
  • I would love to stop paying AWS for public ipv4 addresses.

    But simply it is impossible to go full ipv6, as many of isps of the clients do not support it.

    Currently there is no pressure to the isps to move to ipv6. In fact the incentives are OPPOSITE! They love charging for static IPs.

    by whatever1
  • Specifically on weekends, which seems to indicate that it's the corporate/business network side of things that is not bothering with implementing it.
    by throw0101a
  • Meanwhile T-Mobile/Odido in the Netherlands is still not supporting IPv6 despite promising to have been working on it for years.

    Ubiquity gateways also seem to not support it sadly. It would be awesome if they supported something like Hurricane Electric’s tunneling.

    by spockz
  • Thread from two months ago (626 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47777894
    by MYEUHD
  • Noooo, my /22 IPv4 subnet allocation is my personal 401k, I need this money to retire.
    by ThePhysicist
  • When I set up a "pure" (not really) IPv6 server, was surprised that Github does not support it. Without the voluntary operations listed at https://nat64.xyz/ , they'd be unreachable from IPv6.
    by axus
  • Just to add to the 'but the ISPs do not' anecdotes, it has been six months since someone last commented so it is probably time to mention this again on Hacker News:

    * https://havevirginmediaenabledipv6yet.co.uk/

    A major ISP in the U.K., that said in a public statement on World IPv6 Day in 2011 that

    > As well as our core and access networks being capable of supporting IPv6, we're rigorously testing our entire network to ensure that all customers have a smooth and simple transition when the time comes to flick the switch and turn IPv6 on. We're really pleased with how our tests are advancing and are happy to say that by the end of 2012, we'll be able to fully support customers looking to switch to IPv6.

    has not managed to actually flick that switch in 15 years.

    * https://ispreview.co.uk/story/2011/06/08/uk-isp-fluidata-hai...

    by JdeBP

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