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Re: IPv6 traffic distribution

2011-07-29 05:01:22
On Jul 28, 2011, at 11:41 PM, Michel Py wrote:

IMHO, the only valid stats we can gather are either from a large content
provider (which is why Lorenzo's numbers are so interesting) or from a
large eyeball ISP. Cisco, Juniper, Apple, the academia, the IETF, etc
are NOT valid places to collect data.

I think all of the numbers are interesting, but the numbers shouldn't be 
separated from the conditions under which they were collected.   

It's reasonable to say "Google is now seeing X% 6to4 traffic" or "My native v6 
enterprise network is seeing Y% 6to4 traffic."   What's not reasonable is to 
say that observations under one set of conditions are indicative of the whole 
network.   Even observations made at several points by a large transit carrier 
might not be indicative of conditions on the other side of the world.

It's also dubious to extrapolate from a few data points and call it a long term 
trend, because we're in a very early phase of v6 deployment (and v4 
exhaustion), and there are many factors which could have a large but 
unpredictable influence on future use of IPv4 vs IPv6.

Keith

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