IPv6 May Already Be Irrelevant - But So Is Moving Off IPv4, Argues APNIC's Chief Scientist
The Register, Wednesday, October 23rd, 2024
There was always more pressing work to do than migrate, and CDNs have changed the rules
The chief scientist of the Asia Pacific Network Information Center has a theory about why the world hasn't moved to IPv6.
In a lengthy post to the center's blog, Geoff Huston recounts that the main reason for the development of IPv6 was a fear the world would run out of IP addresses, hampering the growth of the internet.
But IPv6 represented evolution - not revolution.