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.'"

Comments

Lack of embedding (and DJB)

[Etcetera]

djb, love him or hate him, called this out years ago...

http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/ipv6mess.html

Lack of IPv4 embedding in IPv6 has to rank as one of the dumbest decisions of all time. It reminds me of that "anti-spam proposal evaluation worksheet" that floats around in the comments here from time to time.

Your plan fails because it:
[X] Demands immediate and total cooperation from everyone at once.

Re:nonsense

[amnezick]

ok. i took a glance at that definition. even easier now: just make src/dst on 64bit and there you have it. eee.fff.ggg.hhh.aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd where efgh can all be 0 for our current ipv4 addresses. we already have cpus working on 64bit so ntoa/aton will fit in just "fihine"

for future reference: "To me ipv6 is still nonsense" should be read just like that .. "to me" ;)