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alt227 2 hours ago

NAT superceded ipv6 quite plainly, and it is obvious what technology won out.

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umanwizard 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Er… not at all. NAT and ipv6 are both very widely used, with IPv6 adoption steadily growing over time.

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alt227 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Only due to the mobile device space. It will not take off outside of Wireless telco networks.

Take a look at the IPv6 Google graph that everyone loves so much:

https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html

You can clearly see an initial steep spike to the curve where mobile adoption was new and fierce, and then the curve starts slowly becoming less steep over the last 10 years. It will peter out and remain steady when mobile device adoption reaches critical mass.

	▲	dpark an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		How do you look at a chart showing Google access is 50% IPv6 and then proclaim that clearly NAT “won out”? In what world is 50% market share a loss?
	▲	umanwizard an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		No, as I pointed out in another reply to you, home internet is commonly dual-stack (at least in the US and many other countries), and machines with dual-stack connectivity can and do use IPv6 to connect to sites that support it. You can verify this yourself using Wireshark or similar tools.