On Oct 5, 2010, at 11:42 PM, Noel Chiappa wrote: >> From: Michael Richardson <mcr@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > >>> So what %-age of traffic across major backbones is now IPv6? > ^^^^^ >> From what I've read, it's about the same size as the IPv4 in 1992 > > I don't think so... unless you meant 'total number of packets', not > 'percentage' (as I asked). > > The point is that backbone traffic is still mostly IPv4 - and with the IPv4 > address space runout in only a few months, that's unlikely to change > substantially between now and then. So whatever's going to happen when IPv4 > addresses run out, a mass conversion of traffic to IPv6 probably isn't it. I think the demise of IPv4 will be a lot like the demise of BITNET. Keith _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf