Comment by orangeboats
1 day ago
It's always the same with those "I hope IPv6 were just IPv4 with more octets" proposals on Hacker News, aka Godwin's law of the Internet Protocol.
It turns out when you ignore the hardest part of the problem, you can always make a good-looking proposal!
That isn't the hardest part. We already got software and hardware supporting IPv6, and yet...
It still is. A lot of IoT and "smart" devices are still dreadfully slow in updating their software.
Iot isn't what's holding ipv6 back. There are tons of websites and even cloud platforms with totally ipv6-capable hardware and OSes, but the services are v4-only or strongly v4-preferred.
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Tbf there are always bad implementations. Good "smart" devices nowadays should be based on the Matter standard, which natively uses IPv6 addressing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matter_(standard)