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		xrisk on Feb 15, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Lessons learned while developing Age of Empires 1 ... Okay but 100% of the world uses IPv4. Why is having IPv6 support important for a website?

jandrese on Feb 16, 2018 [–]

Because IPv4 is close to exhausted[1] and we need IPv6 support to be the rule, not the exception, by the time it's no longer affordable to get an IPv4 address.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv4_address_exhaustion

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