Big day for IPv6 - 1% native penetration

Tue Nov 20 16:42:10 UTC 2012

On 20 November 2012 16:05, Patrick W. Gilmore <patrick at ianai.net> wrote:
> On Nov 20, 2012, at 08:45 , Owen DeLong <owen at delong.com> wrote:
>
>> It is entirely possible that Google's numbers are artificially low for a number
>> of reasons.
>
> AMS-IX publishes stats too:
>         <https://stats.ams-ix.net/sflow/>
>
> This is probably a better view of overall percentage on the Internet than a specific company's content.  It shows order of 0.5%.
>
> Why do you think Google's numbers are lower than the real total?
>

They are also different stats which is why they give such different numbers.

In a theoretical world with evenly distributed traffic patterns if 1%
of users were IPv6 enabled it would require 100% of content to be IPv6
enabled before your traffic stats would show 1% of traffic going over
IPv6.

If these figures are representative (google saying 1% of users and
AMSIX saying 0.5% of traffic) then it would indicate that dual stacked
users can push ~50% of their traffic over IPv6. If this is even close
to reality then that would be quite an achievement.

- Mike