Thanks for testing, in year 2026, still IPv6 is not fully well utilized homes, corporates especially it is worse at clouds (AWS, GCP) if you not limit north to south, they are not good for east-to-west compared to telco providers. For example, GCP uses IP forwarding for IPv6 real IP address is not allocated at machine. At some of the components which is EKS is not support every case at IPv6.

So IPv8 can be available around year 2300 I guess :) (i have not inspected v8 RFC yet)

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clhodapp 2 hours ago | parent [-]

IPv8 is just a reactionary response to IPv6 not being "IPv4 with larger addresses" like people who know IPv4 well would prefer.

There would be no reason to adopt it if IPv6 were adopted.

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hdgvhicv an hour ago | parent [-]

Yet IPv6 hasn’t been adopted. For decades.

Because it wasn’t implemented transparently at the OS. I can’t plug in to my ip6 only network and reach an ip4 address because end user OSes don’t implement clat transparently, even today in 2026, let alone 20 years ago.

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jrmg a minute ago | parent | next [-]

Yet IPv6 hasn’t been adopted.

Well over half of Google’s traffic is IPv6 in the USA, and it’s recently become over 50% of all Google’s traffic worldwide at weekends.

https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html#tab=per-... https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html

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adw an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

> Yet IPv6 hasn’t been adopted.

news to literally anyone on a mobile internet connection (which is most internet connections!)

	▲	alexpotato 5 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I learned recently that France IPv6 adoption is also very high.