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

[John Curran <jcurran () arin net>]

On Jul 10, 2015, at 2:01 AM, Nicholas Suan <nsuan () nonexiste net<mailto:nsuan () nonexiste net>> wrote:

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

Indeed.

If there are “holes” in the methodology, then they are quite consistent holes, since Google,
APNIC, and Akamai 
<http://www.stateoftheinternet.com/trends-visualizations-ipv6-adoption-ipv4-exhaustion-global-heat-map-network-country-growth-data.html#countries>
are all reporting similar rates in US IPv6 end-user connection ratios (around 20% of
connection attempts at present and growing rapidly)

It’s possible that there’s some self-selection going on (i.e. that the subset of Internet
users reflected in this percentage are disproportionate users of Google, Facebook,
and Akamai-served content sites compared to the “other” Internet end-users), but given
the widespread usage of the companies providing the information, there’s a fairly high
burden of proof necessary if one is to assert that the metrics are somehow not
representative of the US Internet end-user population as a whole.

/John

John Curran
President and CEO
ARIN