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Re: Also Facebook (was: Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion)


From: Nicholas Suan <nsuan () nonexiste net>
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 02:01:05 -0400

You should elaborate on some of these 'holes' then.

On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 12:53 AM, Ricky Beam <jfbeam () gmail com> wrote:
On Thu, 09 Jul 2015 21:48:06 -0400, John Curran <jcurran () arin net> wrote:

Both techniques indicate more than 20% of the US Internet users are
connecting via IPv6.


Interesting method that's full of holes (and they know it), but it's data
nonetheless.

Globally, it's still ~4.5%. Within my own pool of providers, I'm ZERO for 5.
(I've not pinged TWC-BC lately, 'tho. And no one has gotten back to me that
Earthlink has provided TWC with any prefixes, so us Earthlink cable internet
customers are still dark.)

(They’ve also observing a significant performance
improvement with IPv6 connected users over IPv4 connected...


IPv4 tends to be NAT'd and aggressively proxied. I also wouldn't rule out v6
taking a different path, but that wouldn't explain the magnitude of
difference those slides would suggest. (not really readable via youtube)


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