IPv6 Traffic Volumes Are Low, But Nobody Knows How Low

[Daniel]

"As the June 8 World IPv6 Day experiment draws near, there is universal agreement that little IPv6 traffic is traversing the Internet at the moment. The event is designed in part to increase that volume. However, it will be difficult for Internet policymakers, engineers and the user community at large to tell how the upgrade to IPv6 is progressing because no one has accurate or comprehensive statistics about how much Internet traffic is IPv6 versus IPv4."

And in case you don't know much about IPv6 and why it matters, dave.io has kindly provided "a primer on the IPv6 transition: why it's cool, how to get started with it and what's changed."

 

[dro]

In for a big ass clusterfck

Things will not go smoothly IMO

 

[Cory]

Linux Supports IPv6
Windows Supports IPv6
ISP Support IPv6
Data Centers (Some) Support IPv6

Basically comes down too is 'Software' that doesn't support IPv6.

Hosting Field:
cPanel doesn't support IPv6
Maybe few other control panels.

Most Registrars don't support IPv6 (Godaddy is the only I know that does for the sole purpose of registering nameservers with an IPv6 IP.

Basically, comes down too is we're not ready for IPv6. We're still stuck on IPv4 ans since this all has been allocated but one 'Class' of IPs nobody is going to be able to setup new services eventually.

With a Class E IP Block - we would have a lot of ips and good for a few years until IPv6 can be fully supported.

 

[Daniel]

I agree that ISPs are one of the major barricades. Since around the first of the year, I've been pressing our ISP for information on their IPv6 support, so we can get in on testing some things on IPv6 day. No one seems to know anything. I've called sales, I've called support, and I've had my queries escalated to "senior technical staff"--none of them knew of anything about their preparations for IPv6. What was even more scary (though perhaps expected) was that most of them had never heard of IPv6.