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'IPv6 Just Turned 30 and Still Hasn't Taken Over the World, But Don't Call It a Failure'


Three decades after RFC 1883 promised to future-proof the internet by expanding the available pool of IP addresses from around 4.3 billion to over 340 undecillion, IPv6 has yet to achieve the dominance its creators envisioned. Data from Google, APNIC and Cloudflare analyzed by The Register shows les...

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IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn’t taken over the world, but don't call it a failure