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Yeah the at least 25 years thing is a cop out. The IPng committee specifically chose the protocol that didn't have a transition plan, and today still doesn't have a transition plan.

I expect we're going to plateau with adoption for a long while now. 50% adoption is meaningless if it doesn't tangibly make a dent in the IPv4 exhaustion problem.

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Well, other than the transition plans that it has and still has. The exact same plans that the other options like TUBA had.

If you ignore those then sure, it didn't have a plan.

Stomping your foot angrily at ISPs and Internet facing entities to adopt a protocol noone cares and/or getting governments to intervene because you've exhausted all your options and progress is stagnant is not a transition plan, that's a hail mary.

If you can't enforce a flag day then that's all you're left with, isn't it? Other than maybe hacking into people's networks, upgrading them and then somehow preventing them from undoing your work.

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