* Tore Anderson

> My assumption is that if the amount of IPv6 servers in the country's
> pool is larger than the amount of IPv6 users in the country, it must
> surely be safe to return any AAAAs for that country's .pool.ntp.org.
> 
> Turns out there's only one country that has a larger deployment of IPv6
> users than IPv6 members in its pool.ntp.org, and that's Belgium. In
> be.pool.ntp.org there are 16 IPv4 servers and 5 IPv6 servers, so the
> latter constitute 23.81% of the total. The amount of IPv6-enabled users
> is greater: 30.28%.

On the other hand, I think enabling AAAAs for be.pool.ntp.org would
also cause a net benefit. Assuming that all of the 30.28% IPv6-enabled
users in Belgium are also IPv4-capable, they now are sharing the 16
IPv4 servers in be.pool.ntp.org with the 69.72% non-IPv6-enabled users.

30.28% of 16 IPv4 servers are 4.84 "servers". That's a smaller number
than the 5 IPv6 servers in be.pool.ntp.org, so by enabling AAAAs for
be.pool.ntp.org those IPv6-enabled users would get a sightly larger
pool of NTP server capacity available to them. It would be beneficial
for the non-IPv6-enabled users in Belgium too, because they would not
have to share the 16 IPv4 servers with the IPv6-capable users any
longer.

So in summary I think it seems safe to returning AAAAs for every single
country-specific pool.ntp.org zone, Belgium's included.

Tore
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