Re: IPv6 traffic distribution

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On Jul 28, 2011, at 11:41 PM, Michel Py wrote:

> IMHO, the only valid stats we can gather are either from a large content
> provider (which is why Lorenzo's numbers are so interesting) or from a
> large eyeball ISP. Cisco, Juniper, Apple, the academia, the IETF, etc
> are NOT valid places to collect data.

I think all of the numbers are interesting, but the numbers shouldn't be separated from the conditions under which they were collected.   

It's reasonable to say "Google is now seeing X% 6to4 traffic" or "My native v6 enterprise network is seeing Y% 6to4 traffic."   What's not reasonable is to say that observations under one set of conditions are indicative of the whole network.   Even observations made at several points by a large transit carrier might not be indicative of conditions on the other side of the world.

It's also dubious to extrapolate from a few data points and call it a long term trend, because we're in a very early phase of v6 deployment (and v4 exhaustion), and there are many factors which could have a large but unpredictable influence on future use of IPv4 vs IPv6.

Keith

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