The lofty and generous allocations of yore have been mangled beyond recognition. It's all politics but mostly money that rules the IPv4 scene these days. Were it a perfect world, unused space not found in TLD reference would be auto-reallocated as needed. Not gonna happen.

So we are stuck with the current reality, no vision, just exception handling for the next 10-20 years.

Public policy is absent. Already faux and mutant IP-like network tunnels are developing to thwart political and extortion hacking. Look for these to become the next mushrooming problem. On the outside, they appear normal, but inside, there are swathes of proprietary munging going on. It's embryonic today and a nightmare tomorrow.

And, despite virtues, what happens?

Why did AT&T get such a massive Class A block?

Even ham radio got the full 44.

Then, even more virtuously, IPv6 was invented with no mandates to be interactively compliant, no testing rigor, NADA.

It's indefensible. The IETF isn't a deity. It takes more to make a massive change after the fact, and look at the statistics, the implementations, the emphasis you cite in education. This is failure, on a broad and stupid scale. I wish it weren't so. But these are facts.

Astonishingly huge swaths are given away of the IPv6 address space. This doesn't count possible exponentiation to numbers that approach infinity, never get there, but are mind-boggling nonetheless.

The debacle renders clusterfuck-grade madness. We should expect better than this.

I understand the standards fully.

It's the implementations and supporting components, from old router, recalcitrant ISPs, end point walled gardens across the planet, and much other gear that may, or not, do one thing (perhaps correctly) and many bad things more commonly.

Citing standards is fine, it's the implementations that are diffuse, incorrectly installed, with ignorance and even malice towards IPv6 for sins it didn't commit-- just the results when connections don't work, or DNS is incorrectly implemented, or worse, poorly thought-through settings are chosen. Is it a bad rap? Yes.

That's the reality I find. No matter the standards, BS implementation thwarts IPv6 today, across the planet.

The address shortage also amounted to CIDR hoarding. The original allocations gave away huge swaths of space-- which in turn, were poorly implemented until suddenly, they were "gold". Some receiving early allocations auctioned them off to others, who in turn, parlayed them into more gold (or negotiating gold) along the way.

It's my belief that the IETF could've done this differently, and ARIN along with it. Vendors only haltingly implemented IPv6, and the worst problem came with endpoints and endpoint gear makers. Did they lead the way? No. Did they browbeat endpoint makers? No. Did they help find test suites to vet implementations? No. Did they fail? No, but it's not unlike the joke about how many plumbers does it take to change a light bulb? The answer: Wrong Union.

And just like daily auto traffic, you have to watch out for the other guy, who didn't signal and is talking on his phone.

The problem is: There is no standard way, just a bunch of them, because of the many mutant implementations.

This isn't horseshit, this is the reality of what network engineers have to deal with, not to mention the civilians who are just trying to learn enough to get by. Then they discover that the address space covers most atoms in the known universe, perhaps more.

Inside various operating systems, there are largely standard, and then sometimes, um, variations on how to pipe into IPv4 walled networks from varying compute spaces.

While I stand by the fact that IPv6 networks work as advertised, the day to day reality is that it is indeed, a clusterfuck of adoption problems. It solved a problem that didn't exist at the time, despite much hype to the contrary. Worse, it could've been better but because people were burned, there is a dual-system, and any possible improvements will cause moans of the like you have rarely heard in computing because everyone will point to the CF as evidence of adoption problems.

Nice try but that's not what's going on here. Furthermore, resistance to this insanity has only just begun.

You're not trying hard enough... (/snicker)

This simplistic bullshit got modded insightful?? When it comes to administering punishment, everything comes down to intent.

Nitwit.

And tech titans don't need to go to conferences, except to keynote at their own vanity-bro love fests held in achingly expensive venues.

The sheer volume of rah-rah overcomes any sanity, and the "business partners" all tote the company line. They remind me of political conventions, except the food might be better.

They're not the ones actually shoving this down our throats - it's stupid MBA and marketing people with knees that need to be met with baseball bats.

The UK, dubiously.

The burden isn't on him to correct the deficiencies in your so-called theories.

This auto-generated article inadvertently implies that the extreme cold was somehow unexpected... Dear God, when will the stupidity stop.

Except when concerns about pedophilia trump Trump. Outrage at pedophilia strikes deep into the heart of many odd communities. It's also used as a false rubric against gay men, and others.

It's also stunning to note the age of consent and marriage across the US, and ye gawds, across the world. Female outrage votes.

A real coder uses Occam's Razor to shave. No cream needed.

The government in control of the USA may meet your description, and the people of the USA do not. Free Speech is at the heart of what we do.

Our credibility is mightily worn. The government pushes every edge, every value held dear. Much of the populace is relying on the rule of law, itself heavily damaged, to mitigate the ensuing problems.

There's little use in telling the world to hang in there. My personal hopes of a regime that heals instead of constantly wounding, still holds. I am ever hopeful of the goodness of people. The Asleep, rather than The Woke, have made a mess of things. A healer will come; I truly believe this. Vote.