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Unless I'm misreading the confusingly-worded press announcement, this is 50% of traffic to IPv6-enabled hosts. Big difference.

okket 10y ago
I think you misread the announcement. To me it reads that >50% of the total traffic is now coming via IPv6 from IPv6-capable content providers ('FaceTubeFlix').
DanielDent 10y ago
I'm not sure the distinction is likely to matter. A small number of sites which account for a significant chunk of all traffic, and many of those sites are compatible with non-legacy internet protocols.
zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 10y ago
In any case, that is kindof the important number, as it reflects the availability of IPv6 connectivity on end user devices, so it's the revelant number for deciding when you can drop IPv4 on the server. Once it's high enough, we can start removing all the IPv4 cruft--it doesn't really matter whether other sites are still running on v4-only.
cft 10y ago
IPv6 enabled hosts include Google and Facebook, so I'd guess that's a lot of traffic.
- tomschlick 10y ago
  and netflix
  - lwhalen 10y ago
    My understanding was that Netflix was 100% AWS, and AWS' implementation of IPv6 was very limited and pretty much to the ELB only.
    - paulddraper 10y ago
      But other parts of AWS are often not public facing anyway.
bigiain 10y ago
Yup. I was about to arc up with an Amazon AWS rant until I read that almost-last-sentence. Headline is misleading, article doesn't ever really clarify, just throws that hint in at the end... (I've got precisely zero mobile apps in the AppStore or Google Play that use IPv6 to talk to their backends...)
dang 10y ago
Ok, we've attempted to make the title more accurate, and also changed the URL from http://www.circleid.com/posts/20160821_ipv6_now_dominant_protocol_among_major_us_mobile_providers/ http://www.circleid.com/posts/20160821_ipv6_now_dominant_pro..., which points to this. Submitters: the HN guidelines ask you to submit original sources. When it's obvious that one post is simply a copy of another, please submit that one instead.

okket 10y ago

I think you misread the announcement. To me it reads that >50% of the total traffic is now coming via IPv6 from IPv6-capable content providers ('FaceTubeFlix').

DanielDent 10y ago

I'm not sure the distinction is likely to matter. A small number of sites which account for a significant chunk of all traffic, and many of those sites are compatible with non-legacy internet protocols.

zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 10y ago

In any case, that is kindof the important number, as it reflects the availability of IPv6 connectivity on end user devices, so it's the revelant number for deciding when you can drop IPv4 on the server. Once it's high enough, we can start removing all the IPv4 cruft--it doesn't really matter whether other sites are still running on v4-only.

cft 10y ago

IPv6 enabled hosts include Google and Facebook, so I'd guess that's a lot of traffic.

tomschlick 10y ago
and netflix
- lwhalen 10y ago
  My understanding was that Netflix was 100% AWS, and AWS' implementation of IPv6 was very limited and pretty much to the ELB only.
  - paulddraper 10y ago
    But other parts of AWS are often not public facing anyway.

bigiain 10y ago

Yup. I was about to arc up with an Amazon AWS rant until I read that almost-last-sentence. Headline is misleading, article doesn't ever really clarify, just throws that hint in at the end... (I've got precisely zero mobile apps in the AppStore or Google Play that use IPv6 to talk to their backends...)

dang 10y ago

Ok, we've attempted to make the title more accurate, and also changed the URL from http://www.circleid.com/posts/20160821_ipv6_now_dominant_protocol_among_major_us_mobile_providers/ http://www.circleid.com/posts/20160821_ipv6_now_dominant_pro..., which points to this. Submitters: the HN guidelines ask you to submit original sources. When it's obvious that one post is simply a copy of another, please submit that one instead.