Big day for IPv6 - 1% native penetration

Tue Nov 27 15:16:27 UTC 2012

On Nov 27, 2012, at 9:50 PM, Randy Bush wrote:

> the cause is netflix and youtube, with a bit of help from fb and non-youtube gobble.

Just because their users can reach popular content-rich/high-bandwidth endpoint sites via IPv6 *that they can also reach via IPv4* doesn't seem to provide much of an incentive in and of itself for IPv6 deployment.  

Obviously, they deployed IPv6 for other reasons, and it would be far more useful to know *why* they deployed it in the first place (i.e., as an experiment, because their user base is outstripping their IPv4 allocations, etc.).

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