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> IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark
Graph description:
> The graph shows the percentage of users that access Google over IPv6
There are reasons to expect both much more and much less traffic per user on IPv6 compared to IPv4...
> 1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1
[0] https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-thain-ipv8-00.html
It has barely hit 50% and it's already plateauing. This adoption rate is ridiculous despite basically all network interfaces supporting it. I thought I would see IPv6 take over in my lifetime as the default for platforms to build on but I can see I was wrong. Enterprise and commercial companies are literally going to hold back internet progress around 60 to 75 years because it's in their best interest to ensure users…
> It should be ISPs doing that to prepare for the transition. Yeah, I dont get why more ISPs don't offer carrier-grade NAT64 instead of the typical CGNAT
It has barely hit 50% and it's already plateauing. This adoption rate is ridiculous despite basically all network interfaces supporting it. I thought I would see IPv6 take over in my lifetime as the default for platforms to build on but I can see I was wrong. Enterprise and commercial companies are literally going to hold back internet progress around 60 to 75 years because it's in their best interest to ensure users…
Nearly all ISPs these days are deploying IPv6 for their mobile networks and core service networks, especially in less developed markets^1. The reason is simple, a cost justification. What doesn't exist is a cost justification for Enterprises to deploy IPv6, and for ISPs to deploy Residential / Corporate Internet IPv6. IMO with the right market conditions, IPv6 could spread really fast within 6-24 months. For example,…
It's only a matter of time before laptops get 5G. Macbooks have been rumoured for a while to get cellular modems. [1] This will probably help adoption. On the one hand it will generate more IPv6 traffic. On the other hand it will expose more developers to IPv6; which will expose them to any lack of support for IPv6 within their own products. [1]: https://9to5mac.com/2025/08/14/apples-first-mac-with-5g-cell...
Every company I have ever worked for in the US didn't use IPv6 and actually blocked it at the FW
And still, in the year of our lord 2026, GitHub does not support IPv6. https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/10539
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Apple/iOS is probably one of the biggest individual drivers of IPv6 adoption. They've been requiring that iOS apps work on IPv6-only networks for close to 10 years now
If that's the case, how does the Github app work on iOS?
It has barely hit 50% and it's already plateauing. This adoption rate is ridiculous despite basically all network interfaces supporting it. I thought I would see IPv6 take over in my lifetime as the default for platforms to build on but I can see I was wrong. Enterprise and commercial companies are literally going to hold back internet progress around 60 to 75 years because it's in their best interest to ensure users…
Well, the curve has got to level-out at 100%.
And still, in the year of our lord 2026, GitHub does not support IPv6. https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/10539