Bob Proulx wrote: > As far as I can tell on a practical basis the main use and requirement > of IPv6 is that many mobile phone operators only have IPv6 addresses > to allocate to their phone clients. This means mobile phone clients > on the Internet can use only IPv6 addressing. Most of the use will be > for HTTP web traffic browsing web sites. This means that ALL web > servers MUST have IPv6 addresses available for mobile phone clients or > they will be unable to connect. That is at this time still only a > subset of all Internet traffic.
In response a reader wrote to me directly and pointed me to this article. https://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/2014/case-study-t-mobile-us-goes-ipv6-only-using-464xlat/ ... 464XLAT is an IPv6 transition technology documented in RFC 6877, which builds on previous technologies such as NAT64 and DNS64. ... I will share it with you as well! Bob