[141093] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Microsoft's participation in World IPv6 day
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Cameron Byrne)
Fri Jun 3 00:57:44 2011
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=L1pdmxdCMQs+z656yjNsDNudAPw@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2011 21:56:48 -0700
From: Cameron Byrne <cb.list6@gmail.com>
To: Hank Nussbacher <hank@efes.iucc.ac.il>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 9:42 PM, Cameron Byrne <cb.list6@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 9:34 PM, Hank Nussbacher <hank@efes.iucc.ac.il> wr=
ote:
>> On Thu, 2 Jun 2011, Cameron Byrne wrote:
>>
>> In that case can anyone explain why the number of IPv4 *only* systems is
>> increasing rather than decreasing:
>> http://server8.test-ipv6.com/stats.html
>>
>> I would have expected the green+azure areas in those graphs to have
>> increased in the past half year but counter-intutitively, it appears tha=
t
>> IPv4 only usage is increasing.
>
> Pure speculation here, but these stats that you refer to are not a
> scientifically representative sample of the internet at large, this
> sample is a self selecting group of people who have chosen to run an
> ipv6 test. =A0These people who run the test, likely know what IPv6 is
> and therefore are more likely to have IPv6 enabled.
>
> As world ipv6 day gets more general press coverage, the graph is
> bending more towards a more realistic sample of the internet ... which
> does not usually have IPv6 access.
>
> Assuming Google users represent the general internet, this is the
> graph that displays what you are likely looking for
>
> http://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics/
>
This data is probably a better reference regarding ipv6 traffic growth
http://www.ams-ix.net/sflow-stats/ipv6/
cb
