We have published the latest measurement results for World IPv6 Launch network operator participants. We now present data for 99 networks, a 10% increase on September’s figures. This is a result of new networks registering to join the Launch effort and already registered networks passing the measurement thresholds. A total of 77 networks are now exceeding the World IPv6 Launch target of 1% traffic over IPv6, many are carrying much higher percentages of IPv6 traffic.
A ‘new entrant’ in the Top 10 is OVH (AS16276) with a measured increase in IPv6 traffic of over 10% from last month.
The results are ranked by volume of traffic measured by Google. The percentages are a simple average of measurement results from multiple sources. Our measurement sources are Google, Yahoo! and Facebook and we have published results for all network operator participants for which we have at least two measurement sources and for which the simple average of those measurements is greater than 0.1%. Further detail on the measurement methodology is available here.
20 more networks connecting IPv6 users
We have published the latest measurement results for World IPv6 Launch network operator participants. We now present data for 90 networks, 20 more than in August. This is a result of new networks registering to join the Launch effort and existing networks passing the measurement thresholds. It’s hugely impressive to see that 6 of these networks are now delivering more than 50% of their traffic over IPv6. A total of 72 networks are now exceeding the World IPv6 Launch target of 1% traffic over IPv6.
The results are ranked by volume of traffic measured by Google. The percentages are a simple average of measurement results from multiple sources. Our measurement sources are Google, Yahoo! and Facebook and we have published results for all network operator participants for which we have at least two measurement sources and for which the simple average of those measurements is greater than 0.1%. Further detail on the measurement methodology is available here.
Join Us! World IPv6 Launch Results Panel At IETF 84 in Vancouver on July 31
As noted on June 12, the official World IPv6 Launch produced some notable objective measurements of IPv6 deployment. “It’s for real” is not just a punchy tag line!
Now that the world has had some time to step back and consider the impact from several angles, the Internet Society is dedicating its standard IETF meeting “briefing panel” session to looking at some of the concrete objective takeaways. Details of the briefing panel, which will take place July 31 from 11:45am-12:45pm (PDT), are available here: www.internetsociety.org/isoc-panel-ietf-84 .
In selecting the panelists, I looked for people who would have a unique view into different aspects of the network. John Brzozowski (Comcast) looks at it from the end-user perspective, while Lorenzo Colitti (Google) can see the whole world as it reaches Google servers. Erik Nygren (Akamai) and George Michaelson (APNIC) have eyes in the middle of the network. Lee Howard (TWC) can step through the complexities of getting from 0 to 1% traffic over IPv6. And, as readers of this blog already know, Mat Ford (ISOC) has been keeping the overall view of measurements related to World IPv6 Launch.
I’m looking forward to seeing concrete data on deployment, reach and performance from the panelists. It’s clear that we’ve launched — how are we progressing? Are we picking up speed? What is becoming clearer as the obvious bottlenecks to further deployment and uptake?
Even more, I’m looking forward to an interactive discussion — between the panelists, and with the Internet engineers in the audience for the session — to help interpret the data and elaborate next steps for IPv6 deployment.
If you’re planning on attending the IETF meeting in Vancouver, consider attending the briefing panel in person. Otherwise, feel free to tune in to the streaming audio from the session, or have a listen when it’s posted.
Please note this is a separate registration from the regular IETF Meeting. The registration form can be found on the Internet Society’s site.
Leslie Daigle
Chief Internet Technology Officer
Internet Society
daigle@isoc.org
Infographic: World IPv6 Launch By The Numbers
To help tell the story of what happened with the beginning of World IPv6 Launch on June 6, 2012, we created this infographic that explains through both numbers and charts how the Internet changed – and is continuing to change!
Please feel free to pass the image along or to use it in your materials – and to point people here to this page www.worldipv6launch.org/infographic to download a copy themselves.
Thank you to all of you who are part of these amazing numbers – and we look forward to seeing the continued growth of IPv6 in the months and years ahead.
(Click on the image below to view the infographic in a separate window.)
Network operator measurement results from World IPv6 Launch
We’ve published network operator measurement results from World IPv6 Launch here. These results show some networks carrying impressive percentages of IPv6 traffic. The results are ranked by volume of traffic measured by Google. The percentages are a simple average of measurement results from multiple sources. Our measurement sources are Google, Yahoo! and Facebook and we have published results for all network operator participants for which we have at least two measurement sources and for which the simple average of those measurements is greater than 0.1%.
Folks interested in the measurement methodologies used by our sources should read on.
Google: We measure IPv6 adoption among Google users by adding measurement JavaScript to a random sample of visits to various Google properties. The methodology is similar to that described in our paper, Evaluating IPv6 adoption in the Internet. The JavaScript uses HTTP to fetch a URL from an IPv4-only hostname and a URL from a dual-stack hostname, in random order, and then reports the results. The measurement is attributed to the ASN that originates the user’s IPv4 address. Measurement endpoints use the same infrastructure that serve regular Google traffic.
Facebook: On June 6th, we examined page loads from randomly selected users. For each user we are able to test if they are using IPv6 to communicate with Facebook. We also know which ISP (World IPv6 Launch participant) they are using at their location. After collecting all data for June 6th, we calculated the percent of unique IPv6 users out of total unique users we saw from each ISP. Many millions of page loads were in our 24-hour data capture for these statistics.
Yahoo!: Yahoo!’s data is based on a sample of the user population hitting our “Front Page” sites (such as www.yahoo.com, ca.yahoo.com, etc). The percentage of IPv6 users is determined by an invisible image on the page being loaded from a dual stack (IPv4+IPv6) web server; the web server logs whether IPv4 or IPv6 was used. Each user selected for measuring IPv6 will only run this test to completion once per 24 hours, per browser session. We considered any ISP with more than 1000 users (extrapolated from sample set) to be measurable; we additionally considered any ISP with significant IPv4 users to be measurable.