[158265] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Big day for IPv6 - 1% native penetration
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dobbins, Roland)
Tue Nov 27 10:20:48 2012
From: "Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins@arbor.net>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 15:16:27 +0000
In-Reply-To: <m2lidn85gz.wl%randy@psg.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Nov 27, 2012, at 9:50 PM, Randy Bush wrote:
> the cause is netflix and youtube, with a bit of help from fb and non-yout=
ube gobble.
=20
Just because their users can reach popular content-rich/high-bandwidth endp=
oint sites via IPv6 *that they can also reach via IPv4* doesn't seem to pro=
vide much of an incentive in and of itself for IPv6 deployment. =20
Obviously, they deployed IPv6 for other reasons, and it would be far more u=
seful to know *why* they deployed it in the first place (i.e., as an experi=
ment, because their user base is outstripping their IPv4 allocations, etc.)=
.
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