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As IPv4 addresses become increasingly scarce it won’t be possible to hand out publicly routeable addresses to every user. The alternatives are things like CGNAT but that has a bunch of problems.
On the other hand the default suggested IPv6 allocation per user is a /48 subnet (which is 65,5536 /64 subnets each containing 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 addresses) which should be more than enough for anybody. More and more services slowly are making them selves available via IPv6.
So rather than run a dual stack IPv4/IPv6 network with a double NAT’d (at the home router and again at the ISP’s CGNAT link to the rest of the internet ) IPv4 address, we can run a pure IPv6 ISP and offer access to IPv4 via a NAT64 gateways to allow access to those services that are still IPv4 only.
On the other hand the default suggested IPv6 allocation per user is a /48 subnet (which is 65,5536 /64 subnets each containing 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 addresses) which should be more than enough for anybody. More and more services slowly are making them selves available via IPv6.
So rather than run a dual stack IPv4/IPv6 network with a double NAT’d (at the home router and again at the ISP’s CGNAT link to the rest of the internet ) IPv4 address, we can run a pure IPv6 ISP and offer access to IPv4 via a NAT64 gateways to allow access to those services that are still IPv4 only.
