Google and IPv6

Steve Wilcox stevewilcox at google.com
Tue Mar 18 23:12:42 CET 2008


On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 5:50 PM, Kevin Day <kevin at your.org> wrote:

>
> On Mar 18, 2008, at 9:05 AM, Steve Wilcox wrote:
> >
> > Pretty scary trend, somewhere between 25% - 33% of all IPv6 clients
> > hitting you are broken on any given month, even now.
> >
> > Indeed.. and I wonder why broken-ness seems to fall flat around
> > May07 whilst working continues its previous upward trend..
> >
> > Steve
> >
>
> If I had to guess, it would be due to Vista adoption.
>
> Vista is bringing more users trying to use v6, and seems to have a
> higher success rate than previous operating systems. At least when in
> the hands of people who don't even know they're running v6.
>
> While it's not an exact correlation, the increase in v6 users in
> recent months seems to be nearly proportional to the increase in Vista
> users hitting our sites. Vista was released in November of 2006, but
> we didn't see significant numbers of Vista users hitting our sites
> until near mid-2007.


Possibly altho given that the graph is of % that suggests that brokenness is
still increasing but it is being counteracted on by the increase in working
Vista deployments - presumably absolute values shows that.


>
>
> -- Kevin
>
>


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Global Infrastructure
Google Inc.
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