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Level of IPv6 Usage Is Vanishingly Small
An anonymous reader writes "The impending IPv4 address allocation shortage has led to a lot of speculation on the future of IPv6 (including here). A new study says that Internet IPv6 migration is not just going slowly — it has basically not even begun. After spending a year measuring IPv6 traffic across 87 ISPs around the world, the study concludes 'less than one hundredth of 1% of Internet traffic is IPv6... equivalent to the allowed parts of contaminants in drinking water.'"
Is it African or European IPv6?
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, watch it -- I'm huge!
The the water is internet. Which comes into our houses view pipes.... OMG THAT PROVES IT. The internet IS a series of tubes! We were all sooo wrong ;\
Let me get this straight... It's not a truck?
Make all porn only reachable through IPv6.
Never do a job now that can be done tomorrow, never do a job that can be done on thursday tomorrow.
No, because it's IPv6, you have to compare against the number of grains of sand on the planet.
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Like that means anything to me. Can they compare that percentage in terms of the number of pages per Library of Congress?
Sure.
'That's like less than one hundredth of 1% of the number of pages in the library of congress.'
We'll be using IPv6 to run our fusion powered, flying cars to go to the moon?
Well, if this sentence was in a book in the Library of Congress, IPv6 usage would represent its adoption lev
What if I do the same thing, and I do get different results?
dont be so hard on him, you know how different it is to do prefix based forwarding with a radix structure on a 8-64 bit prefix instead of a 8-30 bit prefix?
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99% of IPv4 traffic is bittorrent.
Coincidentally, 99% of percentages seen in Slashdot comments are made up on the spot.
You just got troll'd!
I know I can't get IPv6 here. I've called my local cable company (CableONE) and they told me "Oh, that's not being implemented in the US. That's over in Asia."
But I must say that many new consumer routers advertise IPv6.
The government can't save you.
the affect of my foot up your ass?
That's "the effect of my foot up your ass". Further reading.
Offtopic? I find the terror-crying index to be a much easier number to mentally picture.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, watch it -- I'm huge!
I can say "Hey, ping 10.10.1.12" and people will do it.
Kids these days. 15 or 20 years ago you could say, "Susan! I just fingered you!"
If you take all the IPv6 addresses and stood them end to end, they'd wrap around the globe six times!
The internet routers will carry 128 bits of address space. That is enough addresses to fill two thousand Olympic sized swimming pools!
The IPv6 address space is so huge, it would fill the Beijing Birds Nest.
Oh yeah, your mom is so fat, she weights more then an entire IPv6 /8.
Your mom is so fat, she needed the government to build IPv8 to hold all her IP addresses.
And an offtopic one I just though of: Your mom's sex tape is so nasty, even Pirate Bay banned her from their network.
Hmmm. Base 85, eh?
I hereby propose a closely related 40-character format, where each base85 value is represented by a pair of letters, consonant-vowel -
The "bananafofana" IPv6 address notation...
17 consonants: bdfghjklmnpstvxwz
5 vowels: aeiou
=> 85 distinct consonant-vowel pairs
(dropped c,r because of confusion possibilities with s/k,l. h is tricky for some non-english speakers, but it can typically be learned. I tend to think of x as the ch sound in irish/scottish "loch", but, well, it doesn't matter all that much.)
First, transform to base 85 is performed as per the RFC1924. Then,
rather than mapping to 85 different ascii characters, the 0-84 base85 digits are mapped to consonant+vowel pairs in consonants*vowels sequence i.e.
("ba" "be" "bi" "bo" "bu" "da" "de" "di" "do" "du" "fa" "fe" "fi" "fo" "fu" "ga" "ge" "gi" "go" "gu" "ha" "he" "hi" "ho" "hu" "ja" "je" "ji" "jo" "ju" "ka" "ke" "ki" "ko" "ku" "la" "le" "li" "lo" "lu" "ma" "me" "mi" "mo" "mu" "na" "ne" "ni" "no" "nu" "pa" "pe" "pi" "po" "pu" "sa" "se" "si" "so" "su" "ta" "te" "ti" "to" "tu" "va" "ve" "vi" "vo" "vu" "xa" "xe" "xi" "xo" "xu" "wa" "we" "wi" "wo" "wu" "za" "ze" "zi" "zo" "zu")
These pairs are then concatenated to give a 40 character nonsense word string -
So, for example, 1080:0:0:0:8:800:200C:417A => base85 4-68-70-46-66-12-63-31-61-19-4-37-53-75-0-58-57-65-34-51 (from the RFC)
=> [buvoxanevefitoketegubulipowabasosivakupe]
There, much better ;-)
Maybe spaces should probably be allowed between every 8 characters, just to make it a bit more legible. Especially out loud :-)
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What's wrong... NAT got your tongue? ;D
I like this one [ delusive sometime volatile tubelike pipeline ]
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