IPv6 celebrates its 20th birthday by reaching 10% deployment
FFS: MX records didn&#x27;t take 20 years to get deployed!<p>This is crap. After twenty years, none of the problems with IPv6[1] have resolved, and when you get an IPv6 address from some places (hotels, mostly), much of the Internet turns into a unusable ghetto.<p>There&#x27;s also <i>zero</i> IPv6 at BT or Virgin Media, two of the largest Internet providers in the UK. We&#x27;ve been hearing we&#x27;ll get it &quot;next year&quot; for a while, and I&#x27;m frankly tired of dealing with the incompatibility.<p>If IPv6 offered a <i>single</i> user-visible feature it would sell like hotcakes: Mobile IP? IPSEC? All just as optional as with IPv4. Heck, if they even nailed auto-configuration or let multicast onto the Internet at least they&#x27;d have some customers.<p>Instead, it&#x27;s sold a twenty-year clusterfuck of doomsday predictions about running out of IPv4 addresses, and the experience has been impossible to learn from because (a) it&#x27;s spanning three decades now, and (b) everyone disillusioned by IPv6 can&#x27;t come around without losing face.<p>I&#x27;m tired of IPv6 patting itself on the back; This was the worst deployment ever.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cr.yp.to&#x2F;djbdns&#x2F;ipv6mess.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cr.yp.to&#x2F;djbdns&#x2F;ipv6mess.html</a>