Re: IPv6 traffic stats (was: Re: Last Call: draft-irtf-asrg-dnsbl (DNS Blacklists and Whitelists))

[Danny McPherson <[e-mail]>]

On Nov 11, 2008, at 11:57 AM, David Kessens wrote:

>
> Joe,
>
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 08:20:11AM -0800, Joe St Sauver wrote:
>>
>> I'm not aware of DNS block lists which cover IPv6 address spaces at
>> this time, probably in part because IPv6 traffic remains de minimis
>> (see http://asert.arbornetworks.com/2008/8/the-end-is-near-but-is-ipv6/
>> showing IPv6 traffic as constituting only 0.002% of all Internet  
>> traffic).
>
> For the record:
>
> It seems that arbornetworks estimates are extremely low to the point
> where one has to ask whether there were other issues that caused such
> a low estimate.

No, the methodology is outlined in the referenced report.
Given what we were measures and what data was supplied, those
were the results.

> There is no question that IPv6 traffic is quite low in the Internet.
> However, many other reports that I have seen recently measure multiple
> orders of magnitude more IPv6 traffic (for an easily accesible example
> see: http://www.ams-ix.net/technical/stats/sflow/)

Indeed, and multiple orders (less than two) of magnitude is still,
from this, only .1% on average.  I believe the point remains very
much the same.

-danny


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