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After Launch Day: Taking Stock of IPv6 Adoption
darthcamaro writes "So how did World IPv6 Launch go? Surprisingly well, according to participants at the event. Google said it has seen 150% growth in IPv6 traffic, Facebook now has 27 million IPv6 users and Akamai is serving 100x more IPv6 traffic. But it's still a 'brocolli' technology. 'I've said in the past that IPv6 is a 'broccoli' technology,' Leslie Daigle, CTO of the Internet Society said. 'I still think it is a tech everybody knows it would be good if we ate more of it but nobody wants to eat it without the cheese sauce.'" Reader SmartAboutThings adds a few data points: "According to Google statistics, Romania leads the way with a 6.55% adoption rate, followed by France with 4.67%. Japan is on the third place so far with 1.57% but it seems here 'users still experience significant reliability or latency issues connecting to IPv6-enabled websites.' In the U.S. and China the users have noticed infrequent issues connecting to the new protocol, but still the adoption rate is 0.93% and 0.58%, respectively."
To be fair, broccoli is good if it's fresh and is in the "goldilocks zone" - not too crisp, not too soggy. Brussels sprouts are similar: Obviously don't give them to me raw, but I'd prefer to not eat a soggy bitter mass of plant pulp.
Can't say I've ever had kale. I enjoy collard greens, does that count?
For large sets, this will be our guide even unto death, for the LORD will work for each type of data it is applied to...
Extending an IPv4 stack to use 64 bit addressing
Almost as much work as IPv6. You would still have to change out ALL of the hardware in the world and still have to update ALL of the software. If it's going to be the same amount of large scale work, just do it correctly the first time.