Re: IPv6 woes - RFC

[Jared Mauch <jared () puck nether net>]

> On Sep 16, 2021, at 9:23 AM, Ca By <cb.list6 () gmail com> wrote:
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> This has nothing to do with IPv6, of course, other than that modern phones use
> VoLTE so within a mobile carrier's network your voice call is probably handled
> using IPv6 transport.
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> Good point John. 
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> A lot of folks missed that ipv6 absorbed the scale growth in mobile, and mobile is what most eyeballs and be big 
> content consider the internet to be. And, yes, mobile voice is called VoLTE and is most commonly deployed in the usa 
> with ipv6. 
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> And most internet is called youtube / fb, and that is ipv6 too. 
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> This is where i live and work , 87% of mobiles on v6, voice and data
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> https://www.worldipv6launch.org/apps/ipv6week/measurement/images/graphs/CombinedUSMobileCarriers.png
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> This is where nanog seems to be (old man yells at cloud meme)
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> https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/memepediadankmemes/images/0/01/297.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20180908193511
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> I don’t see the failure of ipv6 in 2021. It is globally deployed, providing global address, to billions of things and 
> PB/s of content 
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> There are laggards in adopting v6, but they have not stopped the frontier of internet to reaching billions of people 
> and things. 


Yeah, I think this is the thing that I see people most often missing.  Yes your provider may not be doing IPv6, but 
many applications and providers may yet be IPv6 internally or IPv6 to the popular content. 

I also say the number of people who store an IP as integer in a mysql(mariadb) backend is not to be underestimated.  

I still see some people doing the split up the IPv6 to store it in multiple columns thing even in 2021 which is 
disappointing as it shows this backwards/legacy thinking.

If you’re seeing majority IPv4 bits, you likely have some choke point (CGN/FW) or similar gateway on the content side 
that needs a major update.  I saw a post yesterday that someone used a unicode char to add an account nickname at their 
bank and it caused the entire bank to pause and them to get a phone call.  Not sure if it’s true, but it rings true.

Be the one enabling the next-generation access and you’ll similarly see graphs like the mobile carriers see.

- Jared