Today the internet is a world wide web connecting billions of devices. All these devices need an IP-address to be able to communicate with one another. With the current version of the internet protocol, IPv4, the address space is limited. To solve this problem a transition to the latest version, IPv6, has begun. But the transition is going slowly partly because of a temporary solution called NAT, Network Addressing Translation. With the help of interviews with highly appointed employees from large IT companies in Sweden, this study examines the impact of factors other than NAT that are affecting the speed of the transition, and why a technically advanced country like Sweden is so far behind in this process. The results show that the demand ...