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IPv6 is technically much more complex than IPv4 so there is the big hurdle that many are unwilling to jump for what many perceive to be a minimal gain. Will there be an IPv6-lite?

6 posted on 08/01/2023 12:28:43 PM PDT by frogjerk (More people have died trusting the government than not trusting the government.)

I spun up on IPv6 shortly after its release. DoD was "mandating" it. I did a fair number of conversions of applications to handle a "dual stack IPv4/IPv6" properly. The hangup has always been the network routers and bridges. Just because your local equipment and apps are IPv6 capable doesn't mean the rest of the network can carry the traffic. There are also a multitude of new attack surfaces that security software needs to detect and block attacks. It's not hard to use IPv6 on a local network in place of typical class C e.g. 192.XXX.XXX.NNN patterns.