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throw0101atoday at 11:53 AM1 replyview on HN

> IPv6 will never reach the 100% needed to turn off IPv4.

As was predicted in 1994:

      Furthermore, we note that, in all probability, there will be IPv4
      hosts on the Internet effectively forever.  IPng must provide
      mechanisms to allow these hosts to communicate, even after IPng
      has become the dominant network layer protocol in the Internet.
* https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1726#section-5.5

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commandersakitoday at 12:20 PM

It was also predicted that the address exhaustion problem would be averted, in fact that was the purpose of v6. It failed to deliver.

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