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Re: Big day for IPv6 - 1% native penetration

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mikael Abrahamsson)
Tue Nov 27 00:01:21 2012

Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 05:59:37 +0100 (CET)
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: Michael Thomas <mike@mtcc.com>
In-Reply-To: <50B4019D.9080807@mtcc.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On Mon, 26 Nov 2012, Michael Thomas wrote:

> I don't see either Apple or Microsoft as being the hindrance. In fact, 
> both of them seem pretty ready, fsvo "ready". Unlike ISP's by and large. 
> But I'm pretty sure that both iPhones and Androids are pretty happy 
> about being in v6 land since I see them showing up in my logs all the 
> time, for the few providers that have lit up v6.

Not on the mobile side. Wifi yes, mobile no.

> I'm all for bagging on those two, but it seems pretty unjustified here.

What they need to start doing is testing Apps for IPv6 only access 
capabilitity. This doesn't work today, Apps like Waze, Spotify and others 
do not work on IPv6 only access.

-- 
Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike@swm.pp.se


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