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2 edits | reply to patcat88
Re: Citizen identification I doubt IPv6 block exhaustion will ever become a problem.
The real "problem" is convincing the world, with a big focus on the United States, to "flip the switch" from IPv4 to IPv6. Europe and Asia are ready for this, given that they're the ones who have to fight/scream to get more IPv4 addressing space, while we don't.
I will point out that the number of IPv6 routes currently announced on the Internet is around 2000. Compare that to over 300,000 for IPv4. 
Personally? I think we have enough addressing space with IPv4 at this point, assuming that MIT, IBM, US DoD, Xerox, and some other big names start returning portions of their /8 netblocks to ARIN.
As for consumers, I'm not really sure IPv6 will do anything, given the pre-existing adoption of NAT routers. Technically all residential companies would have to start selling are residential IPv6 firewalls (e.g. a router without NAT) and voila, no more port forwarding or other annoyances.
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