IPv6 celebrates its 20th birthday by reaching 10 percent deployment (Ars Technica)

Posted Jan 6, 2016 4:56 UTC (Wed) by pizza (subscriber, #46)
In reply to: IPv6 celebrates its 20th birthday by reaching 10 percent deployment (Ars Technica) by Cyberax
Parent article: IPv6 celebrates its 20th birthday by reaching 10 percent deployment (Ars Technica)

> The actual 64-bit transition involved rewriting of a huge chunk of software, ugly hacks to support legacy 32-bit code, long transition periods and it is STILL not completely finished.

You forgot to mention that existing 32-bit code is supported by continuing to maintain the entire 32-bit environment in parallel with the new 64-bit stuff, and the two cannot interact without something atively translating between them.

Come to think about it, that sounds an awful lot like IPv4/IPv6 dual stacks. :)