On killing IPv6 transition mechanisms

[John Payne]

On Mar 15, 2010, at 3:09 PM, Ole Troan wrote:

>>> if I was a content provider I would look hard at those numbers above
>>> to judge if I wanted to piss off 0.08% of my customers and slow down
>>> the web site for a quarter of a percent of the others.
>> 
>> Your thinking in terms of a garage operation ISP.  "dual stack" to a
>> content provider means "dual stack the SITE not the HOST"
> 
> it is pretty evident that you don't know what terms I'm thinking in. ;-)
> 
> the problem here isn't in the DC. the problem is that by adding an AAAA record to your site you will lose some fraction of your users. is that fraction small enough to ignore? hopefully. but let's not make it any larger.

0.1% (rounding up) is a HUGE number of users for many sites.   That translates to lost revenue, so yeah, whilst it is measurable against "$RANDOM fluctuations" the fraction is too high.