IPv6 evolution

Mon Jun 4 22:49:01 UTC 2012

IPv6 paths that are the same as an IPv4-level path are correlated with 
better IPv6 performance according to:  "Assessing IPv6 Through Web 
Access - A Measurement Study and Its Findings"

http://repository.upenn.edu/ese_papers/602/

At the Feb NANOG I gave a lightning talk on trends involving dual-stack 
ASes, beginning with the fraction of AS-level paths that are the same in 
IPv4 and IPv6.  As of Jan 2012, 40-50% of AS-level paths are the same in 
v4 and v6 for dual-stacked origin ASes.

http://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog54/presentations/Monday/Luckie_LT.pdf

We've looked further into the evolution of IPv6 since then.  In 
particular we looked at "what could be".  We find that 95% of AS-level 
paths could be the same today: where an IPv4 path contains ASes that are 
not found in an IPv6 path to the same dual-stacked origin, we check to 
see if the AS is observed in an IPv6 BGP path, and thus the AS is IPv6 
capable at a minimum.  A brief blog post on this is at:

http://blog.caida.org/best_available_data/2012/06/04/ipv6-what-could-be-but-isnt-yet/

Matthew