Experts have enumerated common challenges to global blockchain and IPv6 adoption, which include the lack of understanding on the matter and crafting proper regulatory frameworks that would work with existing regulations.

While leaders continue to mull guidelines to regulate the emerging technologies industry, pioneers in the sector have launched a series of forums and workshops to help with educating enthusiasts, members of the public, as well as developers and engineers on the latest technologies in the market, which Sureswaran Ramadass said is a good starting point.

Speaking with CoinGeek Backstage, Ramadass, the chair of the IPv6 Forum Malaysia, said engineers—the primary individuals that will drive IPv6 adoption—are used to working with IPv4 and have little to no experience in handling IPv6, leading to the slow implementation of the technology.

“As an engineer, I feel very comfortable working with IPv4, and that is a temporary solution, but I feel more comfortable working with the devil I know than something new, which is IPv6 technology,” he said.

Ramadass noted that while industry leaders could develop newer technologies using IPv4, the world could miss out on greater things that only IPv6 could offer. This thought pushed him and experts in the field to kickstart an education program that would help engineers and developers familiarize the nascent technology, which he shared at the IEEE conference in Bali, Indonesia.