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Level of IPv6 Usage Is Vanishingly Small

Posted by kdawson on from the nine-hundred-days-to-exhaustion dept.

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. Re:Makes me happy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    does not fit into any native data type (and won't until we move to 128 bit architectures

    Talk about it. When I was programing on an 8 bit computer, I always hated people who wanted to have more than $2.55 in their bank account.

    Seriously, if you have difficulties dealing with 128 bit numbers, your boss should hire someone else.

  2. Re:Not needed. by lucas+teh+geek · · Score: 0, Troll

    Another reason people NAT is for address portability. There is *still* no way for small fish to get a IP that isn't bound to their provider.

    NAT helps this how exactly?

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