World IPv6 Day? [included bonus report on brokeness studies]

[Leen Besselink]

On 01/13/2011 11:01 AM, Nick Hilliard wrote:
> On 12/01/2011 21:12, Martin Millnert wrote:
>> Lorenzo/Google presos.  This is not "well-studied" (in terms of distinct
>> research) in my book, but maybe I apply a too academic weight to the
>> term.
>
> You're right to haul me up on sloppy use of language.  I should have
> been more specific about what I meant to say, which was that this has
> been studied by several organisations with a large web presence (among
> them Google, Wikipedia and others), all of whom have pretty typical
> user profiles.  All of them seem to indicate that enabling AAAA
> records causes between 0.05% and 0.35% breakage as an overall figure.
>
> Nick
>

If I understand correctly the number of users with problems should have
actually declined after those studies because of an Apple update of Mac
OS X which prefers IPv4 over IPv6-transition protocols ?

Ofcourse not all users will update immediately:

http://www.fud.no/ipv6/gnuplot/osxversions.png