Internet Protocol Version 6: Dead or Alive?
Sumit Maheshwari, Richard P. Martin

TL;DR
This paper argues that IPv6 has failed to achieve widespread adoption, is effectively dead, and should be replaced by newer ID-based protocols that offer better features and easier deployment.
Contribution
It provides a comprehensive comparison of IPv6 with alternative protocols and reasons for IPv6's lack of adoption, advocating for a shift to newer protocols.
Findings
IPv6 has not been widely adopted after 20 years.
IPv6 is considered a dead protocol by the author.
New ID-based protocols offer better features and easier deployment.
Abstract
Internet Protocol (IP) is the narrow waist of multilayered Internet protocol stack which defines the rules for data sent across networks. IPv4 is the fourth version of IP and first commercially available for deployment set by ARPANET in 1983 which is a 32 bit long address and can support up to 232 devices. In April 2017, all Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) confirmed that IPv4 addresses are exhausted and cannot be allocated anymore implying any new organization requesting a block of Internet addresses will be allocated IPv6. This creates troubles of interoperability, migration and deployment, and therefore organizations hesitated to use IPv6 borrowing IPv4 addresses from other big organizations instead. Currently, when IPv4 is not available, and IPv6 is not adopted for around 20 years, the question arises whether IPv6 will still be accepted by the computer society or will it have an…
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Taxonomy
TopicsCaching and Content Delivery · Opportunistic and Delay-Tolerant Networks · IoT and Edge/Fog Computing
