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Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no> Tue, 11 November 2008 21:34 UTC

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Sorry, I misremembered.

The correct number from the presentation is 0.238% - only Russia, 
Ukraine and France have more than 0.5% IPv6.

Presentation available from 
http://rosie.ripe.net/presentations-detail/Thursday/Plenary%2014:00/index.html.

                     Harald

Turchanyi Geza wrote:
> Harald,
>
> Your Half percent is great!
>
> When Tim Berners-Lee presented the www at the JENC conference in
> Insbruck in 1992, he said that according to the traffic mesurement
> statistics, the www-related trafic is around half percent.
>
> What was the ratio two years later? 40%
>
> Half percent is a good "start" for a real revolution.
>
> The question is: where is any similar movement to those pushed the web
> development in the early nineties?
>
> Best,
>          Géza
>
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 9:38 PM, Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no> wrote:
>   
>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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/)
>>>       
>> Google's measurements indicate that when faced with a dual-stack host (one
>> with both an AAAA and an A record in the DNS), 0.5% of all hosts will access
>> that host using IPv6.
>>
>> (As presented at the RIPE meeting in Dubai last month.)
>>
>>                   Harald
>>
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