IPv6 woes - RFC

Sun Sep 5 16:22:20 UTC 2021

Saku Ytti <saku at ytti.fi> writes:

> I view IPv6 as the biggest mistake of my career and feel responsible
> for this horrible outcome and I do apologise to Internet users for
> it. This dual-stack is the worst possible outcome, and we've been here
> over two decades, increasing cost and reducing service quality. We
> should have performed better, we should have been IPv6 only years ago.

I believe this is slowly sinking in among the technology evangelists and
geeks who managed to drive the half-assed dual-stack transition a decade
or two ago. No one will argue for dual-stack anymore.

So where does that put us in a decade or two?  Which protocol is
optional?

Bjørn