> I get absolutely nothing currently by enabling IPV6 on my server because I cannot depend on it.
You know you can dual stack right? It's not a binary option. You can run IPv4 and IPv6 addresses side by side, offering the best connectivity to all clients. You gain a lot by enabling IPv6, and not much to lose. Out of curiosity, why are you against IPv6 so much? It's coming, it's not going away. Over 25% of US residences have routed IPv6 addresses. Adoption is higher in other parts of the world.
I know, but why should I? When the time comes I will enable IPv6 but right now it's more hassle than it's worth.
> You gain a lot by enabling IPv6, and not much to lose. Out of curiosity, why are you against IPv6 so much?
I'm not against IPv6, I just don't gain anything from it. Which means that effectively it just complicates the general setup for me, more things that can break etc.
> Adoption is higher in other parts of the world.
It would appear those parts of the world are not customers to me, users of my software or they are fine with IPv4. And again, that's what is the thinking process for many, many people that have small web services or websites.
> How do you know if you don't have IPv6 endpoints?
For my open source projects I do not care. For the business side of things at any company I worked for the bulk of the revenue came from a handful of countries where invoicing was set up, the interface was translated to, everybody spoke English in support etc. If I would ever have to grow a business into an area where there is no IPv4 connectivity or problematic one, there would be plenty of other issues before.
> And those sites will continue to be small with that kind of thinking.
One has nothing to do with the other. Sites grow because they grow their consumer base and that has pretty much nothing to do with IPv6 connectivity (at the moment). The future is irrelevant in this discussion as the thread was about why few people care currently.
> The user stats show that the time is now. What kind of signal are you waiting for?
Not the stats I am looking at, but I'm willing to be shown different statistics. For all companies I worked for IPv6 has been not even a topic worth discussing so irrelevant was it for the the operations.
You know you can dual stack right? It's not a binary option. You can run IPv4 and IPv6 addresses side by side, offering the best connectivity to all clients. You gain a lot by enabling IPv6, and not much to lose. Out of curiosity, why are you against IPv6 so much? It's coming, it's not going away. Over 25% of US residences have routed IPv6 addresses. Adoption is higher in other parts of the world.