One Year After World IPv6 Launch — Are We There Yet? 246
darthcamaro writes "One year ago today was the the official 'Launch Day' of IPv6. The idea was that IPv6 would get turned on and stay on at major carriers and website. So where are we now? Only 1.27% of Google traffic comes from IPv6 and barely 12 percent of the Alexa Top 1000 sites are even accessible via IPv6. In general though, the Internet Society is pleased with the progress over the last year. '"The good news is that almost everywhere we look, IPv6 is increasing," Phil Roberts,technology program manager at the Internet Society said. "It seems to be me that it's now at the groundswell stage and it all looks like everything is up and to the right."'"
But its still difficult (Score:5, Informative)
Re:What groundswell? (Score:5, Informative)
That's tremendously short sighted. Should we wait until IPv4 exhaustion is actually causing us lots of problems, or should we get things ready in advance, and make an orderly transition and avoid the problems (arguably the problems started already with all the issues NAT brings when you want to actually establish end to end connections - especially when you discover the guys at the far end happened to use exactly the same RFC1918 netblocks as you did and now someone has to renumber their internal network. We avoided that one by the skin of our teeth - we have a Very Expensive Piece Of Machinery that gets remote support from Siemens who made it. The netblocks they use for their internal networks are the same as ours - it was just blind luck our network addressing didn't end up overlapping, and their network was an adjacent /24 of RFC1918 space to one of our internal networks!)
Re:I always thought... (Score:5, Informative)
But what do we do in 20 years when the IPv6 address space starts to run out? Think I'm kidding? I can remember when people thought they'd never fill a 20mb because it was so huge!
There are enough IPv6 addresses available to give each and every of the 7+ Billion humans alive today 4.6 x 10^28 addresses
Or as someone else put it, The earth's surface area is about 510 trillion square meters. If a typical computer has a footprint of about a tenth of a square meter, and we stacked computers 10 billion high blanketing the entire surface of the earth, that would use up one trillionth of the address space.
I seriously doubt we're in danger of running out in the next millennium or two.