Hi, Ryan:
1) " ... it accounts for 40% of the traffic at Google. ":
Perhaps you were referring to the following?
https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html
2) If so, your quotation is correct, except there are some hidden
stories below the surface:
A. When you Google for it with key words "IPv6 Traffic Google",
the first hit shows "IPv6 *_/Adoption/_*" that lead to the above. So,
strictly speaking, it is _/*not traffic */_data that you are looking at.
B. Above the actual graph, you will find statements, such as "
... the *_/availability of IPv6 connectivity/_*_/**/_among Google users.
...." So, legally, the graph is correct on its own right, but may not be
exactly what you thought. Reader be aware!
It implies that the graph the IPv6 capability (equipment readiness)
of Google users, not necessarily the actual traffic they generate. The
two do not equate to each other.
3) However, the above did seem to support what was generally said in
the public. Until, we found an interesting ongoing (the only one of such
resource that is updated about every ten minutes) statistics by AMS-IX
(AMSterdam Internet eXchange) :
https://stats.ams-ix.net/sflow/ipv6.html
https://stats.ams-ix.net/sflow/ether_type.html
a
The second URL shows that IPv6 accounts for approximately 5.7% of
the overall Internet traffic that AMS-IX sees today. If one traces back
through the archived data, the earlier numbers were even much lower. In
fact, those graphs looked meaningless, because there was hardly any
visible trace colored for IPv6. This has been going on for at least the
last one decade. So, it could not be an error.
4) We contacted AMS-IX for a possible explanation of the obvious
discrepancy. They politely referred us to our own ISPs. This triggered
our curiosity. We decided that we needed to find the full world-wide
IPv6 traffic data.
5) There was an annual world-wide Internet traffic statistics and
forecast published by Cisco that stopped after 2017 (see URL below to
the last issue). We contacted Cisco in 2020 and got an eMail confirmation.
https://cloud.report/Resources/Whitepapers/eea79d9b-9fe3-4018-86c6-3d1df813d3b8_white-paper-c11-741490.pdf
6) However, there has never been any equivalent publication for the
IPv6 by itself that we could locate.
7) In search for a possible explanation of the discrepancy between
Pts. 1) & 3), we came across the following article. In brief, it
reported that the Peering agreements among Internet backbone providers
were less settled for IPv6 than IPv4. Thus, higher percentage of IPv6
traffic than that of IPv4 should have been directed through the IXs
(Internet eXchanges), such as AMS-IX.
https://www.theregister.com/2018/08/28/ipv6_peering_squabbles/
8) The conclusion of Pt. 7) furthered our puzzlement, because it was
opposite to what we were hoping for. That is, the roughly 5.7% IPv6
traffic that AMS-IX sees implies that within the overall Internet, the
IPv6 traffic should be even less than 5.7%, not as high as Google's 40+%
(Adoption) rate. Since we did not have the resources to further the
research on this topic, we saved the above summary to share with anyone
interested in pursuing for a better understanding. It will be much
appreciated, if you could share your insights of this topic.
Regards,
Abe (2024-01-14 22:49 EST)
On 2024-01-12 09:20, Ryan Hamel wrote:
Abraham,
It has existed for many years, already supported on many devices, does
not require NAT, address space is plentiful, does not require
additional proposals, and it accounts for 40% of the traffic at Google.
Ryan
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Hi, Ryan:
1) " ... Save yourself the time and effort on this and implement
IPv6. ":
What is your selling point?
Regards,
Abe (2024-01-12 06:44)
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