[191693] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: One Year On: IPv4 Exhaust
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Radu-Adrian Feurdean)
Sun Sep 25 18:00:44 2016
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From: "Radu-Adrian Feurdean" <nanog@radu-adrian.feurdean.net>
To: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>, "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2016 23:58:10 +0200
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On Sun, Sep 25, 2016, at 23:27, Mark Andrews wrote:
> But it shows that if you turn on IPv6 on the servers you will get
> IPv6 traffic. We are no longer is a world where turning on IPv6
> got you a handful of connections. There are billions of devices
> that can talk IPv6 to you today the moment you allow them to.
I know, but for the "server guys" turning on IPv6 it's pretty low on
priority list.
> Can all your customers talk IPv6 to you? No.
> It the proportion of customers that can talk IPv6 to you increasing?
> Yes.
My customers are eyeballs. Residential ones have dual-stack by default,
business - some have, some don't and some explicitly refuse (or ask for
v6 to be disabled).
> Is somewhere between 11-14% worldwide enough for you to invest the
> time to turn on IPv6 enough? It should be.
Since they (the 11-14% worldwide) do have IPv4 anyway, some consider
it's not worth; at least not yet.
The issue with IPv6 deployment it's not as simple as some people
suggest. It's not a technical problem either, but it's a big one.
