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> "The supply of IP addresses is limited"

s/IP/IPv4/

In practice today, IP basically is just IPv4. And that won't really change until IPv6 is supported by more than a comparatively small handful of networks and users.

True, but CloudFlare should be a company driving v6 forward, i.e. mentioning that the address problem only exists in v4.

Make people aware that v4 is history and present. Sure, we currently have to deal with it, but v6 and v4 should be treated equally. Esp. when talking about problems v6 solves.

They are driving ipv6 forward, they will transparently provide AAAA records for sites they host unless you opt out, and also support ipv6 only backends which they will provide ipv4 for.

Facebook has fully deployed IPv6[0], with almost all of their internal traffic now IPv6. They actually ran out of private IPv4 space to use.

IPv6 is here. If you're setting up a new service today without it you should be shot.

[0] https://www.dropbox.com/s/doazzo5ygu3idna/WorldIPv6Congress-...

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