A handful of links for IPv6 deployment information Article http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/092412-next-gen-internet-262671.html Hodge podge of variour reports http://bgp.he.net/ipv6-progress-report.cgi Akamai provides tons of hosting for companies, including a big chunk of the government mandated IPv6 support for various US government agencies. http://www.akamai.com/ipv6 Summary + Statistics Report (left side navigation link) http://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/index.html If you play with the google statistics report you can see, though still in the 1% range, the recent spike in growth rate in 2012, it grew ~ 0.5% in the year.... and the rate of growth is likely to accelerate with the advancement of many ISPs/companies becoming fully IPv6 enabled on their networks (as noted in my first link) and sites like Youtube, Facebook, Google, Yahoo, Netflix, etc all advertising IPv6 records for their sites. IPv6 is not going away, IPv4 will be (sometime many years in the future). You don't want to ignore IPv6. The reason for changing to 128-bit addressing instead of something like 64-bit addressing is to simplify networking and routing efficiency. With IPv4 we're so worried about host address utilization which forces network operators to subnet and de-aggregate networks. This means there are more subnets to route and more subnetting. With IPv6 there is effectively no limit to the number of hosts you can put onto a LAN subnet (assuming a standard of /64 mask size). And as Erik so succinctly pointed out, we don't want to have to re-do this mammoth overhaul of our Internet (operating systems, appliances, network routers and switches, legacy applications, etc) again. Of course there is the ever informative XKCD's take on the limitation of 128-bit addressing... http://xkcd.com/865/ On Sun, 2012-10-14 at 22:00 -0500, Brian Wood wrote: > > What do you think of ipv6? I've read that less than 1% > of the traffic on the internet is ipv6 traffic. > > What baffles me about ipv6 is why they decided to go > from 4 byte addresses to 16 bytes. Wouldn't 8 byte > addresses make more sense? > > -- > Brian Wood > Ebenezer Enterprises > http://webEbenezer.net > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20121015/86bb452e/attachment.html>