[NBLUG/talk] What's the status of IPV6?

[Omar Eljumaily]

This is a kind of followup to a thread about VPNs and SSH tunnels. I 
needed to tunnel into an environmental monitoring device, but it turns 
out that it's much simpler to get a static IP address from the 4g carrier.

It seems that the 4g carrier, Verizon, uses ipv6 for all its internal 
networking.  Google even displays a public ipv6 address when you query 
for IP Address.    However, the IPV6 address can't be used to access our 
device over the internet.

Will the idea that IPV6 will be used for billions of public IP addresses 
and devices ever happen?  It seems like its adoption is slow.  There are 
better ways to deal with certain aspects of the address pool problem, 
like encrypted tunnels to and from private networks, but sometimes a 
unique public address is necessary.

Thanks,

Omar