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But you still need an ipv4 address even if it’s only 10% of people who are ipv4 only.


Not exactly. At 70% (like today in much of the world) that's certainly a practical option for most people. At 10% not so much.

So what happens is that beyond a certain point it stops making commercial sense to route IPv4 globally. That's probably before your 10% mark. So by then there's no point bothering with IPv4 for your systems unless you specifically serve that deprived market and will spend money to connect to them specially.

For IPv4 users the Internet still mostly works, when their system asks "A? some.website.example" and there is no A record because the IPv4 Internet isn't really a thing any more, it gets an answer like "10.20.30.40" where that address was arbitrarily picked as a temporary local assignment for some.website.example. When they connect to 10.20.30.40 a Network Address Translation module behind the scenes does an IPv6 connection to some.website.example and hooks them up.

So their copy of Internet Explorer still "works" although some more advanced features are flaky or missing but hey, they know they have crappy 20th century Internet and ought to upgrade.

Inside some larger companies there already is no IPv4, and that will spread, inconsistently but it will spread, because IPv4 is a pain in the backside, it's easier without it. Translation gateways keep things mostly working enough for people who have IPv4 only, today that's the majority, a decade from now it's a minority, and eventually it's too few people to care about.

Eventually (probably much below 10%) the translation gateways are thinly used enough that "nobody" proactively notices if they're broken, that'll happen in some places faster than others, but the effect is to push those final people to upgrade because it's just annoying to always be the person calling your ISP to complain when it breaks.


If 90% of users are on IPv6, you as a content producer are unlikely to need IPv4 at $20/IP (or rather, $5120 per /24).

If 90% of content is on IPv6, you as a user are unlikely to need an IPv4 address.


Fewer and fewer people are able to get an IPv4 address - that's the main reason for IPv6 !


But some people (like myself) are unable to get an ipv6 right now.

Some people are unable to get ipv6 from their cloud hosted servers outbound right now too. Even if they tried.



You still need one IPv4 address per app or maybe per CDN. It's very few addresses.




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