IPv6, a protocol developed in the late 1990s to address the anticipated Internet address exhaustion crisis, exists in a paradoxical state. For some, while its adoption might have taken longer than expected, it represents a success story - steadily expanding in deployment and enabling more users and devices to connect to the Internet. For others, it appears stalled and increasingly irrelevant, overshadowed by the enduring dominance of IPv4-based solutions, especially as the predicted exhaustion c...