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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.'"

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  1. Lack of embedding (and DJB) by Etcetera · · Score: 1, Redundant

    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.