IPv6 woes - RFC

Thu Sep 16 14:29:49 UTC 2021

> On Sep 16, 2021, at 06:35 , Jared Mauch <jared at puck.nether.net> wrote:
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>> On Sep 16, 2021, at 9:23 AM, Ca By <cb.list6 at 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. 
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> 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. 
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> I also say the number of people who store an IP as integer in a mysql(mariadb) backend is not to be underestimated.  

Nothing wrong with this as long as it’s a 128 bit integer. ;-)

> 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.

UGH… I haven’t seen that in a while, sad to hear it’s still going on.

Owen