[arin-ppml] v4 to v6 obstacles

[Warren Johnson]

I'm not certain we can even set goals.  I think the market will tell us when
we've reached the goal because the noise will quiet down to a low level.
When major residential internet providers are receiving a much-lower amount
of calls from people saying "I can't get to such-and-such website, what's
up??" then we'll know we've hit a milestone.  I reckon there's going to be a
lot of tech support calls that go like this "Hi, this is Warren, I'm a
customer of your cable company and I can't seem to get to the following
sites......."


 

-----Original Message-----
From: Lee Howard [mailto:spiffnolee at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 10:16 AM
To: Warren Johnson; Owen DeLong; Lee Dilkie
Cc: ARIN-PPML at arin.net
Subject: Re: [arin-ppml] v4 to v6 obstacles

> I think that 80% number is misleading.  You're talking 80% because 
> these

> guys have a lot of content, not because they have a lot of websites.  
> The other 20% could be comprised of literally 10s or 100s of million 
> websites, all of which also need to be accessible to everyone for the 
> transition to be a success.  Just because I can get to the top 50 
> websites on the internet doesn't mean that I don't need access to the 
> other 500 million (or whatever the number is).

Yes, there's a long tail.  But several of the largest companies hosting
those long-tail websites have also declared IPv6 plans.  If you run
www.MomAndPopsBaitAndTackle.com off a virtual server in a mammoth web
hoster, you may never  even know that your site is now available over IPv6.

Set some intermediate goals:  50%, 80%, 93%, 98%, 99.6%.
Do we define penetration by number of hosts reachable by IPv6, or number of
bits passed over IPv6, or number of IPv6 flows?  

Lee