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Re: One Year On: IPv4 Exhaust


From: "Radu-Adrian Feurdean" <nanog () radu-adrian feurdean net>
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2016 23:58:10 +0200

On Sun, Sep 25, 2016, at 23:27, Mark Andrews wrote:

But it shows that if you turn on IPv6 on the servers you will get
IPv6 traffic.  We are no longer is a world where turning on IPv6
got you a handful of connections.  There are billions of devices
that can talk IPv6 to you today the moment you allow them to.

I know, but for the "server guys" turning on IPv6 it's pretty low on
priority list.

Can all your customers talk IPv6 to you?  No.
It the proportion of customers that can talk IPv6 to you increasing? 
Yes.

My customers are eyeballs. Residential ones have dual-stack by default,
business - some have, some don't and some explicitly refuse (or ask for
v6 to be disabled).

Is somewhere between 11-14% worldwide enough for you to invest the
time to turn on IPv6 enough?  It should be.

Since they (the 11-14% worldwide) do have IPv4 anyway, some consider
it's not worth; at least not yet.

The issue with IPv6 deployment it's not as simple as some people
suggest. It's not a technical problem either, but it's a big one.


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