[Labs-l] IPv6 on labs

[Maximilian Doerr]

Actually, without looking at the need for when we need to support IPv6, I was simply making a comment at how widely used the are right now.  But the data presented does show that we should have full IPv6 support by the start of 2015, or earlier if possible.  

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On Jun 3, 2014, at 1:47 PM, Jan Lebert <jan.lebert at online.de> wrote:

> Google's statistics [1] show 3.7% of their traffic is IPv6, however in certain regions like Belgium the IPv6 Adoptation is up to almost 20%.
> 
> There are hardly any free IPv4 Addresses anymore, the regional Internet registries are on their last /8 block [2].
> 
> So why not use IPv6, what are the problems? People have been testing and using it for a long time now.
> 
> Jan
> 
> [1] https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html#tab=per-country-ipv6-adoption
> [2] http://www.potaroo.net/tools/ipv4/
> 
> On 06/03/2014 07:27 PM, Maximilian Doerr wrote:
>> IPv6 is not that quite mainstream.  I’ve hardly seen IPv6 addresses,
>> ever.  I think I’ve seen about 6 different IPv6 addresses on Wikipedia.
>> 
>> Cyberpower678
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>> On Jun 3, 2014, at 1:24 PM, Jeremy Baron <jeremy at tuxmachine.com
>> <mailto:jeremy at tuxmachine.com>> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Jun 3, 2014 1:19 PM, "Petr Bena" <benapetr at gmail.com
>>> <mailto:benapetr at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>> > I live in central europe and ipv6 is more like "what?" rather than
>>> > "mainstream" for most of our ISP here
>>> 
>>> And? So therefore what?
>>> 
>>> -Jeremy
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