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Sale of IPv4 Addresses Hindering IPv6 Adoption

Posted by Soulskill on from the can-we-blame-al-gore-for-this dept.

hal9000(jr) writes "While IPv6 day was a successful marketing campaign, is anyone really moving to IPv6? On World Launch Day, Arbor Networks noted a peak of only .2% of IPv6 network traffic. It appears that IPv4 addresses are still valuable and are driving hosting acquisitions. Windows 8 will actually prefer IPv6 over IPv4. If you want IPv6, here's what to do about it."

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  1. Re:delays ... delays ... delays... nothing but del by camperdave · · Score: 5, Interesting
    The sale of IPv4 addresses isn't what is delaying IPv6, but rather:
    • Lack of IPv6 ready devices.
    • The sense that the IPv6 specification is still in a state of flux. Site local addresses have come and gone, being replaced with unique local addresses. Unique local addresses are supposed to be randomly generated, however, there are movements to have a central registry for these. A number of schemes for encoding an IPv4 address in IPv6 have come and gone, as well as certain allocations of address ranges.
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    When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
  2. Prefer IPv6? by WaffleMonster · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Vista and Windows 7 "prefer" IPv6 too... Heck even Windows XP with its crappy IPv6 stack turned on prefers IPv6.

    If you read the whole cnet article what has changed is network awareness sending an IPv6 only HTTP request periodically to a Microsoft server using this to judge if IPv6 connectivity is actually available.

    In other words the behavior of all windows 8 systems on the planet with regards to IPv6 usage is dictated by the availability by a single Microsoft URL. What could possibly go wrong with that? Is it not also wonderful MS having their system ping out to MS servers by default periodically without anyone knowing or providing a user choice to turn it off not involving registry hacks?

    With regards to IPv6 usage I just checked the interface stats on my gateway with an HE tunnel configured. Very interesting...IPv6 Internet traffic is a full 25% of overall Internet usage over the last 145 day period. This predates the June 6th IPv6 go live day by several months.

    IPv6 = 32GB
    IPv4 = 129GB

    ISPs are still dragging their feet lighting up IPv6.. I fear we will have to wait another two years before most large ISPs get their act together on full production deployment.

    The most interesting thing seems to be the "long tail" effect reflected in my actual usage.

    Given current environment where just a handful of megasites are responsible for the majority of all Internet traffic by volume huge changes in traffic patterns can tip the scales on IPv6 usage rapidly while the countless millions of other sites run by the rest take just as long to switch over as the IPv6 naysayers say it will.