[141094] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Microsoft's participation in World IPv6 day
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Andrews)
Fri Jun 3 01:09:37 2011
To: Cameron Byrne <cb.list6@gmail.com>
From: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 02 Jun 2011 21:42:21 MST."
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Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2011 15:08:35 +1000
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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In message <BANLkTi=L1pdmxdCMQs+z656yjNsDNudAPw@mail.gmail.com>, Cameron Byrne writes:
> On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 9:34 PM, Hank Nussbacher <hank@efes.iucc.ac.il> wrote:
> > 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 that
> > 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. These 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/
>
> Cameron
Which is good as it is showing 6to4 fixes being deployed to preference
IPv4 over 6to4 and a strong growth in IPv6 native.
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