[ga] Comprehensive Study Shows IPv6 Shift Isn't Happening

[Danny Younger <dannyyounger@xxxxxxxxx>]

[excerpt]

Despite predictions that the Internet's IPv4 protocol will run out of addresses 
sometime in 2011, little seems to have been done to transition to IPv6, the new 
protocol that will provide enough Internet addresses for the near future, 
according to an Arbor Networks study. The study found that the there were only 
about 600 Mbps of inter-domain IPv6 traffic between June 2007 and June of this 
year, or just 0.0026 percent of the amount of overall IPv4 traffic. The study 
also found that IPv6 traffic peaked twice between Nov. 4 and Dec. 25 of last 
year. Arbor's Scott Iekel-Johnson says the largest of these spikes happened 
when 1,168 people in attendance at a meeting of the Internet Engineering Task 
Force were asked to turn off IPv4 functionality on their network connections 
and routers and test to see which sites could be accessed. Iekel-Johnson says 
the fact that just under 1,200 people caused the largest spike in IPv6 traffic 
over the last 12 months "speaks
 volumes" about the lack of adoption of the new protocol. 

Synopsis courtesy of ACM TechNews http://technews.acm.org/#375298

Full article at http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2328258,00.asp