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I suspect they’ll move to Container.v6 and that everyone will dislike because the values are harder to read to say… then the industry will take an additional decade or two to actually start to use it.


We are approaching decade 3 of ipv6 and ipv4 is still the majority of internet traffic.


> […] ipv4 is still the majority of internet traffic.

Not if you're on mobile. Lots of cell networks only give IPv6 addresses to phones.

E.g., T-Mobile in the US:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNMNglk_CvE


Being a bit more kind, ipv6 only really started to get moving in the wild around ~2010 so we are at the start of the second decade. It has climbed steadily since this point and will be the majority globally within a couple of years. It is already the majority of traffic in the USA, Germany, France and India.




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