If you're using V6 addresses by hand often enough to consider them unfriendly, you're doing something wrong.
Also basically every home router in the last 10 years is V6 dual stack because they're all more or less just running variations on Linux or FreeBSD with user land stripped out for Busybox.
Ipv6 has been fine for years. It is purely institutional laziness at this point.
> If you're using V6 addresses by hand often enough to consider them unfriendly, you're doing something wrong.
I more or less agree that it should be hands off. However explaining to someone over a voice channel how to enter an IPv6 address who isn't familiar even once is unfriendly. Not impossible, more difficult than IPv4.
> Also basically every home router in the last 10 years is V6 dual stack because they're all more or less just running variations on Linux or FreeBSD with user land stripped out for Busybox.
Yes, however they all have various levels of support for managing IPv6. Many early routers didn't have friendly interfaces to set this up, or did so automatically if the ISP provided addresses. Firewall support is still a mixed bag IMO, especially when you start to consider the crap router/gateways that ISPs provide to the lowest bidder. Good hardware with good support isn't something a non-technical person with a single tablet in the house is going to pick up next to the 40-Dollar option on a shelf. You are right, it's getting better.
> Ipv6 has been fine for years. It is purely institutional laziness at this point.
You could also argue that despite the dire warnings about the impending doom of the internet, IPv4 has largely been 'fine' for years as well, and will likely continue to hamper IPv6 adoption until v4 is no longer 'fine'.
Also basically every home router in the last 10 years is V6 dual stack because they're all more or less just running variations on Linux or FreeBSD with user land stripped out for Busybox.
Ipv6 has been fine for years. It is purely institutional laziness at this point.