My point being is that I shouldn’t have to use a 3rd party broker I should be free to form peer to peer v6 over the v4 network at will without any strangle point.

The conspiracy is simple enough, people don’t want a ubiquitous network experience over the legacy v4 network. 6to4 solved the issue of what happens when your ISP doesn’t care, like they don’t care in Hong Kong.

It speaks to the arrogance of SV with no regard to the rest of the world, and how they always want to tunnel everyone’s traffic through their site to then deem that Im not worthy and cut me off. 6to4 bypassed this nonsense and allowed anyone with access to a v4 address to supersede it all.

It’s as embarrassing as Linux groups on FaceBook.

There is no SV conspiracy (at least against v6, anyway!; heh), 6to4 anycast was always going to be a short-term, stop-gap solution, and v6 isn’t going anywhere. There are many major networks that are v6-only, and use 464XLAT or similar to make the v4 internet accessible to their subscribers. T-Mobile US comes to mind. Yes, the rollout and transition has sucked (and continues to suck) and has been very long and drawn-out, but it was always going to suck and be very long and drawn-out…part of that is the fault of the standards bodies for not necessarily addressing all of the v6 analogues for established (and heavily-relied-upon) v4 components right out of the gate, and the other part is the fault of the equipment vendors for not implementing support for those components quickly once they finally did become available. And part is just the existing inertia behind v4, and the fact that it takes a long and very conscious/concerted effort to make a change this dramatic to a critical piece of infrastructure that virtually everybody now relies on daily…a ship like the internet is now at a size and scale where it can’t turn on a dime any longer. Those days are long gone.

Provided for free by Hurricane Electric which have a bit of a reputation for their IPv6 work

Although they are progressively rolling out ipv6 in the UK I still haven’t seen as much progress as I was hoping for (or the Cisco certifications would have me believe) from when I was self-training 11 years ago!

And yet all the other older stuff works, just the stuff that gets me connected is depreciated… 😐

Microsoft’s corporate network is IPv6 only, as is Facebook’s – both have published papers about their migrations 10 or so years ago and the benefits it brought them. Most other companies that deploy it wouldn’t write about it publicly.

6to4 was found to be unreliable and slow, and with most countries having at least one provider offering native IPv6 there is no need to use 6to4. Plus users behind CGNAT cannot use 6to4, which is a LOT of users these days.

Unfortunately for me, I’d like NT 4 clients to be able to talk to my server, which implies IPv4 reachability. Having done that, the benefits of IPv6 are questionable, since it still needs a public IPv4 address, so the question for me is whether to manage one interface or two.

And yet it is not.

Too bad that 6to4 was ended preventing end users with access to a v4 from joining the network.

Corporate networks are still a joke unfortunately. I haven’t seen any with IPv6 yet.