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Thank you.
I've said this repeatedly in many communities and it's like I killed the golden goose - people lose their minds.
I disable IP6 everywhere - my router NATs everything as it is, why have another protocol running if I don't use it?
We'll see what the future brings.
I used to do the same. But some clients nowadays have IPv6 only nodes that I need to connect to, so I've had to enable v6.
With AWS now charging for v4 addresses, the need to at least running dual stack might pick up.
I'd be somewhat lenient when it comes to IPv6 if it used 64 bit addresses instead of 128bit. It would still not be needed thanks to NAT, CIDR and DHCP, but at least a 64bit address space is more manageable.
It's great for backbone and public address space - and maybe in enterprise, but there it's a costly transition that won't happen immediately. Things will change as hardware ages out and is replaced.
New infrastructure will be mostly IP6.
And when people leave the office, their machines will connect to, and transit IP4 networks, so they'll still need to address how everything works over IP4 (say VPN connections, any hardware/software that's still IP4 dependent in the data centers, etc).