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We should probably consider whether the rent-seeking enabled by the scarcity of IPV4 addresses is one of the things holding back IPV6 adoption.

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EU have enough influence to do to IPV6 what it did to USB in iPhones.

It's harder to prove consumer harm with something as abstract as IP addresses, and there's a bunch of other pieces that make this much less unlikely, such as the fact that USBs already become obsolete and need to be replaced, so you're just shifting the replacement cycle.

With all those addresses locked up at the hyperscalers IPv4 has become anticompetitive. So yes, the EU can prove consumer harm.

They don’t need to prove consumer harm to pass laws.

exactly. US anti-trust requires you prove harm to the consumer. In the EU, anti-competitive behavior is enough.

Actually the US gov’t adopted a policy last November to migrate all services to ipv6 by 2025. So the USA might have some weight in the migration.

https://www.ferc.gov/internet-protocol-version-6-ipv6-policy

you mean the fact that amazon has around 4.5B reasons to not support ipv6?

interesting idea

Sooner or later any sort of monopoly leads to abuse of power and loss of foresight of greater good.

AWS supports IPv6.

https://aws.amazon.com/vpc/ipv6/

Kinda.

2/3 of their internal services don’t. You can do ipv6 only vpc but not if you wanted to use rds or ecr or …

more like 90% according to

https://awsipv6.neveragain.de/

It should be driving adoption if the capitalists are to be believed.

Make of that what you will.

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