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The IPv6 Transition
October 2024 I wrote an article in May 2022, asking “Are we there yet?” about the transition to IPv6. At the time I concluded the article on an optimistic note, observing that we may not be ending the transition just yet, but we are closing in.
In the sense of representing a very modest incremental change to IPv4, the IPv6 design achieved its objective, but in so doing it necessarily provided little in the way of any marginal improvement in protocol use and performance. The data published at Internet Society’s Pulse page reports that only some 47% of the top 1000 web sites are reachable over IPv6, and clearly a lot of service platforms have work to do, and this will take more time. Some value its benefits highly enough that they are prepared to live with its shortcomings, but that’s not the case for most name holders and most users, and no amount of passionate exhortations about DNSSEC will change this!
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