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February 28, 2025 Link Blog

The IPv6 transition

The state of the transition to IPv6 within the public Internet continues to confound us. RFC 2460, the first complete specification of the IPv6 protocol, was published in December 1998, over 25 years ago. The entire point of IPv6 was to specify a successor protocol to IPv4 due to the prospect of depleting the IPv4 address pool. We depleted the pool of available IPv4 addresses more than a decade ago, yet the Internet is largely sustained through the use of IPv4. The transition to IPv6 has been underway for 25 years, and while the exhaustion of IPv4 addresses should have created a sense of urgency, we’ve been living with it for so long that we’ve become desensitized to the issue. It’s probably time to ask the question again: How much longer is this transition to IPv6 going to take?

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