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> Google statistics show that nearly 20% of their traffic is over v6, which is honestly not bad. The USA itself is 35%, with no latency hit.

This is totally bad. We need close to a 100% for v6 to make any sense. 20% IPv6 is pretty pointless.



> This is totally bad. We need close to a 100% for v6 to make any sense.

Considering how it was 2% not many years ago, this is a huge improvement.

What's going to drive this further is that the cost of supporting IPv4 will increase more and more as IP-space is exhausted and ISPs will have to apply new hacks like CGN.

At that point getting people to IPv6 and IPv6-only will be a purely be about economics.


For a large ISP, that's 20% less traffic through their very expensive, slow CGN system.




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