Re: Accurate history [Re: "professional" in an IETF context]

[Masataka Ohta <[e-mail]>]

Nick Hilliard wrote:

>> https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html  - total IPv6 at 
>> Google 32.41%
> 
> I suspect, without direct evidence to hand, that these figures are 
> heavily weighted by small numbers of larger carriers pulling content 
> from small numbers of larger content networks.  There is a long tail of 
> sites and networks that are not ipv6-enabled now, and are likely not to 
> ever deploy the protocol, at no particular disadvantage to themselves.

Yup, that is the essential point.

Most small providers will keep offering IPv4 only services, because
it costs less than offering dual stack or IPv6 only with NAT
services, which is a not so direct evidence against IPv6.

					Masataka Ohta