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One Year After World IPv6 Launch — Are We There Yet?
darthcamaro writes "One year ago today was the the official 'Launch Day' of IPv6. The idea was that IPv6 would get turned on and stay on at major carriers and website. So where are we now? Only 1.27% of Google traffic comes from IPv6 and barely 12 percent of the Alexa Top 1000 sites are even accessible via IPv6. In general though, the Internet Society is pleased with the progress over the last year. '"The good news is that almost everywhere we look, IPv6 is increasing," Phil Roberts,technology program manager at the Internet Society said. "It seems to be me that it's now at the groundswell stage and it all looks like everything is up and to the right."'"
I don't think there has ever been a computer industry failure as large as IPv6. It was actually launched twenty years ago and it's gone nowhere. Why is that? It's because the committee that designed it screwed up in the largest way possible. They decided the easiest way to fix the relatively trivial problem of address exhaustion was to create an entirely new network protocol and have the entire world switch to it.
I'm sure that someone on that committee must have had at least average intelligence. That guy must have known that the whole idea was a non-starter. What must it have been like listening to a bunch of engineers getting excited about a totally unworkable solution.