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kalleboo on Jan 23, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: IPv6 Excuse Bingo

Nobody is proposing to deploy services as IPv6-only today in 2024.

Deploy it dual-stack so that people on IPv6 can reach it natively, and people on IPv4 can reach it natively. More and more people have their IPv4 connections going though CGNAT or NAT64 which can be a bottleneck, so IPv6 is faster and more efficient when available.

45% of people online have working IPv6 today (according to statistics from Google). This number has been continually growing.

WarOnPrivacy on Jan 26, 2024 [–]

> 45% of people online have working IPv6 today

This is more helpful than most of the widely broadcast IPv6 adoption figures.

Percent of end-user connections with IPv6 is the figure we need most.

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