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

Fri Jul 10 04:53:21 UTC 2015

On Thu, 09 Jul 2015 21:48:06 -0400, John Curran <jcurran at 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)