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

[Erik Kline]

On 13 January 2011 11:29, Leen Besselink <leen at consolejunkie.net> wrote:
> 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
>
>

And there's no fix for 10.5 or 10.4, IIRC.