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The IPv6 Transition

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215 points todsacerdoti | 3 comments | 20 Oct 24 05:54 UTC | HN request time: 0.002s | source
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Animats ◴[20 Oct 24 07:23 UTC] No.41893593[source]▶
China's IPv6 transition is 74% complete.[1] Conversion to IPv6 was specifically called out in China's 14th Five Year Plan, which gives the goal high visibility within the government and the Party. Conversion is quite far along. The current goal is everything IPv6 enabled by 2025, IPv4 turns off in 2030.

99% of the top 100 mobile applications in China are on IPv6. China Mobile's backbone is now IPv6 only.

[1] https://www.china-ipv6.cn/#/

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snvzz ◴[21 Oct 24 02:09 UTC] No.41900124[source]▶
This is yet another way they're ahead relative to the US.
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1. Vilian ◴[21 Oct 24 03:42 UTC] No.41900492[source]▶
When you want to control and censor all internet is much easier todo that only with ipv6 and not care for ipv4, not sure if that's a "step ahead"
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2. beeflet ◴[21 Oct 24 05:51 UTC] No.41901027[source]▶
IPV4 internet is so broken in terms of surveillance you might as well just get a satellite uplink or some sort of out-of-band channel if you're in china.
3. James_K ◴[21 Oct 24 23:45 UTC] No.41909731[source]▶
v6 is just as easy to censor as v4. Given the popularity of Veitnamese pho noodles over there, I don't think internet censorship is as important an objective as you estimate. Have you noticed how many Chinese tourists there are around the world? Not much you can do about internet when any of them could just pick up a newspaper.