> If IPv6 offered a single user-visible feature it would sell like hotcakes
Being able to connect to my home machine from anywhere. Presently, I have to manually[1] mess around with NAT to accomplish this, and the obvious ways to set up `ssh machine-a.me.com` and `ssh machine-b.me.com` simply don't work. That alone, to me, is a single user-visible feature.
Further, I've had tons of scenarios proposed by my parents that would be considerably easier to do with IPv6. "Why can't I just transfer this file between these two computers? Why does it need to go through some third party?" (This was really a bit before Drive, but even with Drive, it's still an extra step that doesn't really need to be.) As an engineer, there's plenty of problems I simply cannot solve while it remains impossible to address a computer that's supposedly on the Internet.
> Instead, it's sold a twenty-year clusterfuck of doomsday predictions about running out of IPv4 addresses
I can't actually obtain an IPv4 address for a device on my network. There's absolutely nothing I can do. So, from my perspective, those doomsday predictions appear to be correct. (And when I can, it often costs extra for something that ought to cost nothing.)
[1]: All the while we have standardize protocols that should allow software to automatically configure NAT in a router, except they're supported by nobody…
Being able to connect to my home machine from anywhere. Presently, I have to manually[1] mess around with NAT to accomplish this, and the obvious ways to set up `ssh machine-a.me.com` and `ssh machine-b.me.com` simply don't work. That alone, to me, is a single user-visible feature.
Further, I've had tons of scenarios proposed by my parents that would be considerably easier to do with IPv6. "Why can't I just transfer this file between these two computers? Why does it need to go through some third party?" (This was really a bit before Drive, but even with Drive, it's still an extra step that doesn't really need to be.) As an engineer, there's plenty of problems I simply cannot solve while it remains impossible to address a computer that's supposedly on the Internet.
> Instead, it's sold a twenty-year clusterfuck of doomsday predictions about running out of IPv4 addresses
I can't actually obtain an IPv4 address for a device on my network. There's absolutely nothing I can do. So, from my perspective, those doomsday predictions appear to be correct. (And when I can, it often costs extra for something that ought to cost nothing.)
[1]: All the while we have standardize protocols that should allow software to automatically configure NAT in a router, except they're supported by nobody…