Re: [nznog] IPv6 Incentive

Unfortunately, the mentioned content is plentiful enough (both large numbers of discrete items, and replicated large numbers of times) in other places that people seeking it out are unlikely to jump through hoops in order to access this particular instance of it. The 'egg' content has to be globally unique, and attractive enough for people to want it. On 10/04/2007, at 10:47 AM, Andrew Ruthven wrote:

Hey,

During the NZNOG conference it was joked that if the next WoW pack required IPv6 then IPv6 would be rolled out by the ISPs (and transit providers) for the next morning.

See the attached mail for an experiment that might be cause it to be rolled out for that evening...

Cheers!

-- Andrew Ruthven, Wellington, New Zealand At home: andrew(a)etc.gen.nz | This space intentionally | left blank.

From: Kevin Day Date: 9 April 2007 1:27:28 PM To: ipv6-ops(a)lists.cluenet.de Subject: IPv6 content experiment

Just a quick announcement that details of a new IPv6 experiment have been posted at http://www.ipv6experiment.com

As everyone's aware, there's the issue of not enough eyeballs to justify content providers spending the time to deploy IPv6. End user ISPs won't do it until there's content. Many say that there are ways (tunnel brokers, teredo, etc) end users can get on IPv6, and the fact that they aren't using them means it's up to the content providers to step forward. Either way, "lack of demand" is cited by many for the biggest reason why they aren't deploying IPv6. So, what if we put some desirable content up and made it available only on IPv6 and gave those who accessed via IPv4 detailed instructions on how to get on IPv6?

How many are actually able to get on IPv6 if they want? What problems do they run into when trying? Is their connectivity over IPv6 worse than IPv4? (number of hops, packet loss, overall transfer speeds, etc) How many users have IPv6 configured, but don't actually have a working IPv6 connection? (i.e. how many people do you lock out by publishing AAAA records for your site?)

(I'm being intentionally vague here about the details of the content, as not to trip any email content filters. See the site for more details.)

Before we begin with this experiment, I'd like to ask the community if there are any other interesting metrics you'd like us to try to capture, what methodologies you suggest we use, etc.

If you have any questions or comments, feel free to contact me directly!

-- Kevin

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