February 15, 2025 7-minute readThis post does not reflect the views on current, past or future employers. The opinions in this article are my own.This is a series of articles of my musings on why IPv6 failed. Previous article. Most networking protocols over the history of computer networking has failed. What makes up a successful protocol is defined in RFC5218.Personally I have worked on IPv6 standardisation and implementations since 1998. 27 years wasted then. At least I can claim to have learn...