Level of IPv6 Usage Is Vanishingly Small 626
An anonymous reader writes "The impending IPv4 address allocation shortage has led to a lot of speculation on the future of IPv6 (including here). A new study says that Internet IPv6 migration is not just going slowly — it has basically not even begun. After spending a year measuring IPv6 traffic across 87 ISPs around the world, the study concludes 'less than one hundredth of 1% of Internet traffic is IPv6... equivalent to the allowed parts of contaminants in drinking water.'"
Re:how fast? (Score:2, Funny)
So if IPv6 is a water contaminant.... (Score:5, Funny)
Wait... (Score:3, Funny)
Let me get this straight... It's not a truck?
How to really accelerate the migration... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:What's the downside? (Score:2, Funny)
Never do a job now that can be done tomorrow, never do a job that can be done on thursday tomorrow.
Re:Stupid arbitrary units of measurements (Score:5, Funny)
No, because it's IPv6, you have to compare against the number of grains of sand on the planet.
Re:Wait... (Score:4, Funny)
Let me get this straight... It's not a truck?
No it's like a truck, except you can't dump stuff on it like it's a big truck.
Re:Stupid arbitrary units of measurements (Score:5, Funny)
Like that means anything to me. Can they compare that percentage in terms of the number of pages per Library of Congress?
Sure.
'That's like less than one hundredth of 1% of the number of pages in the library of congress.'
Re:How to really accelerate the migration... (Score:2, Funny)
Maybe it's like all the other "in 20 years" stuff (Score:3, Funny)
We'll be using IPv6 to run our fusion powered, flying cars to go to the moon [slashdot.org]?
Re:Stupid arbitrary units of measurements (Score:5, Funny)
Well, if this sentence was in a book in the Library of Congress, IPv6 usage would represent its adoption lev
Re:Makes me happy (Score:3, Funny)
dont be so hard on him, you know how different it is to do prefix based forwarding with a radix structure on a 8-64 bit prefix instead of a 8-30 bit prefix?
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Re:It is obvious (Score:5, Funny)
99% of IPv4 traffic is bittorrent.
Coincidentally, 99% of percentages seen in Slashdot comments are made up on the spot.
Re:Reasons. (Score:4, Funny)
I know I can't get IPv6 here. I've called my local cable company (CableONE) and they told me "Oh, that's not being implemented in the US. That's over in Asia."
But I must say that many new consumer routers advertise IPv6.
Re:Why it doesn't matter (Score:1, Funny)
the affect of my foot up your ass?
That's "the effect of my foot up your ass". Further reading [wsu.edu].
Re:Stupid arbitrary units of measurements (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Why it doesn't matter (Score:2, Funny)
I can say "Hey, ping 10.10.1.12" and people will do it.
Kids these days. 15 or 20 years ago you could say, "Susan! I just fingered [wikipedia.org] you!"
Re:Stupid arbitrary units of measurements (Score:5, Funny)
If you take all the IPv6 addresses and stood them end to end, they'd wrap around the globe six times!
The internet routers will carry 128 bits of address space. That is enough addresses to fill two thousand Olympic sized swimming pools!
The IPv6 address space is so huge, it would fill the Beijing Birds Nest.
Oh yeah, your mom is so fat, she weights more then an entire IPv6 /8.
Your mom is so fat, she needed the government to build IPv8 to hold all her IP addresses.
And an offtopic one I just though of: Your mom's sex tape is so nasty, even Pirate Bay banned her from their network.
Re:Should have gone to A.B.C.D.E.F.G format. (Score:5, Funny)
Hmmm. Base 85, eh?
I hereby propose a closely related 40-character format, where each base85 value is represented by a pair of letters, consonant-vowel -
The "bananafofana" IPv6 address notation...
17 consonants: bdfghjklmnpstvxwz
5 vowels: aeiou
=> 85 distinct consonant-vowel pairs
(dropped c,r because of confusion possibilities with s/k,l. h is tricky for some non-english speakers, but it can typically be learned. I tend to think of x as the ch sound in irish/scottish "loch", but, well, it doesn't matter all that much.)
First, transform to base 85 is performed as per the RFC1924. Then,
rather than mapping to 85 different ascii characters, the 0-84 base85 digits are mapped to consonant+vowel pairs in consonants*vowels sequence i.e.
("ba" "be" "bi" "bo" "bu" "da" "de" "di" "do" "du" "fa" "fe" "fi" "fo" "fu" "ga" "ge" "gi" "go" "gu" "ha" "he" "hi" "ho" "hu" "ja" "je" "ji" "jo" "ju" "ka" "ke" "ki" "ko" "ku" "la" "le" "li" "lo" "lu" "ma" "me" "mi" "mo" "mu" "na" "ne" "ni" "no" "nu" "pa" "pe" "pi" "po" "pu" "sa" "se" "si" "so" "su" "ta" "te" "ti" "to" "tu" "va" "ve" "vi" "vo" "vu" "xa" "xe" "xi" "xo" "xu" "wa" "we" "wi" "wo" "wu" "za" "ze" "zi" "zo" "zu")
These pairs are then concatenated to give a 40 character nonsense word string -
So, for example, 1080:0:0:0:8:800:200C:417A => base85 4-68-70-46-66-12-63-31-61-19-4-37-53-75-0-58-57-65-34-51 (from the RFC)
=> [buvoxanevefitoketegubulipowabasosivakupe]
There, much better ;-)
Maybe spaces should probably be allowed between every 8 characters, just to make it a bit more legible. Especially out loud :-)
Q. Hey, what's that server's address, again?
A. [ buvoxane vefitoke tegubuli powabaso sivakupe ] !!!
Re:Makes me happy (Score:2, Funny)
What's wrong... NAT got your tongue? ;D
Re:Should have gone to A.B.C.D.E.F.G format. (Score:4, Funny)
I like this one [ delusive sometime volatile tubelike pipeline ]
Re:Should have gone to A.B.C.D.E.F.G format. (Score:5, Funny)
[ buvoxane vefitoke tegubuli powabaso sivakupe ]
Why is it suddenly raining blood?