Just Fucking Use IPv6
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Summary
Robin argues in an opinionated personal essay that teams should adopt IPv6, keeping a dual-stack CDN edge for IPv4-only users and using NAT64/464XLAT for IPv4-only dependencies. The case is that IPv6 removes the stacked NAT between clients and services and offers cheaper address space than IPv4, where a /24 reportedly costs $5,000–$10,000. Only the Microsoft example, which cites private-range overlap and 10.0.0.0/8 exhaustion, is sourced. The adoption figures (APNIC 43%, Google 50%) and the claims on mobile networks and CDN pricing are unsourced.