[187115] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 traffic percentages?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Job Snijders)
Wed Jan 20 09:33:38 2016
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Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2016 15:31:32 +0100
From: Job Snijders <job@instituut.net>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
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Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 11:13:41PM +0900, Randy Bush wrote:
> > I propose the following axiom: the greater the distance over which a
> > packet is forwarded, the less likely it is to be an IPv6 packet.
>
> that is a hypothesis not an axiom [...]
Thanks.
> but an interesting hypothesis. how do you propose to test it?
We could assert that the TTL is an indication of distance traveled.
Maybe one should record the TTL and Address Family of all packets
received from the internet ('inbound') at the next NANOG or IETF?
Kind regards,
Job
