So Sergey Brinn outlined the nightmarish reason why IPv6 is wanted.
So the deal is pretty much this - the Internet of Things. Brinn stated
"With the proliferation of IPv6 we will be able to make every hair on every head, every blade of grass, every physical thing in the world - Internet Addressable. We can then feed aggregate data into Artificial Intelligence systems like Deep Mind. It will be like seeing through the eyes of God."
always assumed the explanation would be "We'll run out of IPv4 one day" but that never happened
Indonesia / India are also tapped etc and what typically is going on is intensive reclamation efforts to slab out IPv4 addresses in those areas and use them as interconnections of IPv4<->IPv6 gateways. Basically IPv4 over IPv6.
IPv6 training is ongoing for sure. i got mine 15 years back and then have spent lots of time adapting projects to being able to use it and allocate groups of the Addresses. I even had to teach people how to connect residential routers to Hurricane Electric IPv6 Blocks so they could use IPv6 on networks without it native.
I mean look at the system you are currently on. Most ISPs in the United States are dishing out IPv6 for their routing systems but people are not smart enough to realize it.
visit https://whatismyv6.com and it will explicitly tell your browser session to connect over IPv6
# lynx --dump https://whatismyv6.com | grep -A2 'an IPv6 Address'
You are connecting with an IPv6 Address of:
2620:0:28a4:4140:f{TRUNCATED FOR ANON REASONS HERE}
[1]IPv4 only Test [2]Normal Test [3]IPv6 only Test
Remember also that you will have a fe80 prefixed IPv6 which is always going to be your local network like 127.0.0.1 is.
Most Cellphone Providers have been dishing these out, most cars have cell phones that have them, and more.
So Sergey Brinn outlined the nightmarish reason why IPv6 is wanted.
So the deal is pretty much this - the Internet of Things. Brinn stated
It technically has depending on where in the world you are. For example Latin America Region ( LACNIC ) has already handed out their last IPv4s - https://www.lacnic.net/4848/2/lacnic/ipv4-exhaustion:-lacnic-has-assigned-the-last-remaining-address-block
Indonesia / India are also tapped etc and what typically is going on is intensive reclamation efforts to slab out IPv4 addresses in those areas and use them as interconnections of IPv4<->IPv6 gateways. Basically IPv4 over IPv6.
IPv6 training is ongoing for sure. i got mine 15 years back and then have spent lots of time adapting projects to being able to use it and allocate groups of the Addresses. I even had to teach people how to connect residential routers to Hurricane Electric IPv6 Blocks so they could use IPv6 on networks without it native.
I mean look at the system you are currently on. Most ISPs in the United States are dishing out IPv6 for their routing systems but people are not smart enough to realize it.
visit https://ifconfig.me and it will show you your IPv4
visit https://whatismyv6.com and it will explicitly tell your browser session to connect over IPv6
Remember also that you will have a fe80 prefixed IPv6 which is always going to be your local network like 127.0.0.1 is.
Most Cellphone Providers have been dishing these out, most cars have cell phones that have them, and more.