Hi, > On 6 Jan 2017, at 17:32, Tom Hill <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 06/01/17 12:04, Tim Chown wrote: >> A lot of IPv6-enablign will just come from CDN support for IPv6. >> >> For example, Cloudflare reported 98% of their sites used IPv6 as of >> November: https://blog.cloudflare.com/98-percent-ipv6/. > > Well, no, because my point was that whilst these 'big wins' are going on > and look great on the APNIC stats, there are still many, many websites > hosted on plenty of networks that aren't Youtube/Netflix, a CDN, or > Cloudflare. > > Think Rackspace, OVH, Leaseweb, Savvis, and smaller companies; if they > don't manage the site content, nor the DNS records, then you'll probably > find that those customers don't have public-facing AAAA records (if any > at all) - and thus the proportion of IPv6 will be lessened.
Maybe, but the more mainstream, popular content is likely to be behind CDNs, for availability, response time, DDoS protection, etc. > The people that need to care about IPv6 now, aren't Network Engineers, > and they probably don't work for huge internationals either. They > probably don't have any websites big enough for CDNs. We're missing an > incentive for these website operators to enable AAAA records. Unfortunately the incentive may simply be that if they don’t adapt, they’ll eventually lose customers. I suspect there will be a number of such smaller companies that either never do it, or leave it past the point when it becomes critical. > In terms of UKNOF attendee stats, I'm expecting more of a lop-sided > IPv6:IPv4 ratio than otherwise might be expected, because - amongst > other things - most people won't (shouldn't) be on Netflix or Youtube > whilst in the meeting hall. :) Well… :) Best wishes, Tim
