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."'"
Betteridge's Law of Headlines (Score:3, Insightful)
I can't think of a better place to cite it. I mean come on, I don't even have to click through and RTFA. It's right there in the summary that no, we aren't there yet.
Re:I always thought... (Score:4, Insightful)
Oops 2^64 times larger than the entire IPv4 address space. That'll teach me to preview....
Incidentally, there are enough /48s that you can give every man, woman and child on the planet over 4000 /48 allocations each before IANA even has to think about releasing some of the currently undefined address space.
And the root cause is... (Score:5, Insightful)
Me: "Hello, big boss! I'd like to go to IPv6 soon!"
BB: "What will that take?"
Me: "Oh, probably a couple of months worth of completely dedicated work from your best network folks. If you don't exclusively task them, could take a year."
BB: "Sounds complex. Is it risky?"
Me: "Absolutely! We could totally drop off the internet or lose internal connectivity for quite a while if we mess it up."
BB: "What, exactly, am I getting from this expensive and risky thing?"
Me: "More or less what you have now. The features it does you don't really care about."
BB: "So it's expensive and risky and I get nothing out of it."
Me: "Yep! When can I start?"
*doorslam*
not quite there yet (Score:5, Insightful)
Name: google.com
Address: 2a00:1450:4007:80a::1001
$ nslookup -type=AAAA slashdot.org
Name: slashdot.org
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