In fact, experts have pointed out that , and this is sure to increase costs, if not introduce episodic chaos.

The big problem is that IPv6 was designed by scientists to be a perfect implementation of a technology. It failed to take into account real-world issues. In 2009, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the people behind IPv6, .

IETF Chair Russ Housey admitted things weren't going to plan and added, "Our transition strategy was dual-stack, where we would start by adding IPv6 to the hosts and then gradually over time we would disable IPv4 and everything would go smoothly."

Sadly, as we can see today, this simply hasn't happened, despite additional technology being developed by the IETF to bridge the gap. We shouldn't be switching to IPv6 today. It should have happened years ago.

All of this could have been avoided if IPv6 had been made backwards compatible with IPv4, which would have made transition seamless for most organizations. Instead, it was decided that the internet addressing system should be rebooted from scratch.