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The IPv6 Transition

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nemetroid ◴[] No.41898785[source]
If the US had the same IPv4 scarcity as the rest of the world (specifically, if major US ISPs were using CGNAT), the IPv6 transition would be happening much faster.
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1. Hilift ◴[] No.41899532[source]
That's probably true for consumers. For large, global corporations, IPv6 is a million miles away. I've worked with several, and they all have poorly managed kit, vulnerabilities everywhere, poor documentation/diagrams, poor performance, millions of firewall rules, tons of vendors to connect with, outsourced wireless vendors, remote access solutions that are a byzantine security mess, ... IPv6 is suicidal for most large organizations beyond ok we can speak IPv6 for a small part of the infrastructure. Add to this the recent deluge of VPNs everywhere (probably due to WireGuard) and container networking, IPv6 would be a recipe for disaster. Security is difficult in this scenario, in part due to the people implementing this stuff don't have a good handle on what they are doing.