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Re: IPv6 enabled Christmas Tree

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Post by jburgess777 »

djsumdog wrote: post #10
nujavcas wrote: post #3

IPv6 keeps being a running joke. At least some people still have some sense of humour about it.

IPv6 needed to happen a decade ago. We have exhausted the IPv4 space. I feel IPv6 suffered from huge usability issues, although it can be worked around with good provisioning systems that automatically setup DNS entries. We're going to get to the point where spinning up a VPS with an IPv4 address is going to get increasingly more and more expensive, unless we make some huge strides in moving to IPv6.

RFC1833 "Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification"[1] was published in Dec 1995, over 20 years ago. I think the transition took a lot longer than anyone anticipated, not least because so many people considered IPv4 was good enough to be getting on with.

Only after the IPv4 address exhaustion occurred did many people finally understand that IPv6 was a necessity and not just something they could avoid by deploying another layer of NAT.

The ISP I use was an early adopter of IPv6[2] and the first time I got an IPv6 address I remember wondering what all the fuss was about. For me as a consumer having an IPv6 address made almost no difference to my on-line experience. While that might sounds negative, it is actually a good thing, even several years ago IPv6 "just worked" for consumers.

Today we see many ISPs deploying IPv6 on consumer connections. The Google statistics[3] show just how rapid the growth of IPv6 has been in the past few years. If you zoom in you can see the positive spikes which occur at weekends. These show that home and mobile connections tend to have a higher IPv6 penetration than office networks.

1: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1883

2: http://aa.net.uk/kb-broadband-ipv6.html

3: https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html

Re: IPv6 enabled Christmas Tree

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geodel wrote: post #13
toast0 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

IPv6 is silently gaining a lot of steam lately. Akamai reports[1] close to 50% from comcast and att over ipv6, and 80% from verizon, 72% from t-mobile. Reliance Jio, a new mobile carrier in India is doing 47%. [1] https://www.akamai.com/us/en/our-thinking/state-of-the-inter... (click 'networks')

Thanks, very interesting data set. Shocking to see India went from 1% Ipv6 to 22% in just a period of 6 months or so due to Reliance Network.

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