Re: IPv6 native percentage (end user perspective)

[Hank Nussbacher via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>]

On 19/06/2025 23:12, Forrest Christian (List Account) via NANOG wrote:
> I see numerous statistics from Google and similar sources that indicate the
> percentage of end users who are IPv6 native.   What I'm missing are
> statistics going the other way - what percentage of sites (or endpoints
> that customers regularly connect to) are IPv6-native, from a total traffic
> perspective?
>
> That is, if I switch to IPv6 on my eyeball network, how much of my existing
> traffic will I have to CGNAT in some way to reach the IPv4-only network?
>
> We have sufficient IPv4 address resources to stick with IPv4 for the
> foreseeable future.  However, at some point, the percentage of traffic
> using IPv6 becomes so high that the reasons not to move become less
> significant.   For example, the CGNAT box becomes significantly smaller, as
> most of the traffic should flow around it on IPv6.
https://labs.ripe.net/media/documents/The_State_of_IPv4_Report.pdf

See page 17


Regards,

Hank

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