Perry Lorier wrote:
So if we assume that the vast majority of the AAAA requests fail, and therefore are reissued as a A query. So, 1/5th of the people using the New Zealand Internet are currently using software that supports IPv6 today.
I suspect a large portion of the other 4/5ths are Windows XP SP2 users which could enable IPv6, but it's not enabled by default.
That kind of implies that if all those Windows users were to turn on the relevant hooks in XP then it would all burst into life. Perhaps Vista will have it on by default and everything will just start working. (:-) But we know that's not the issue - it's the routers, the DNS and all the other infrastructure stuff where it's either not available or costs a whole heap more. And I suspect that there's a large number of "Networking Professionals" who, having barely got to grips with the transition from Class A, B and C addresses to CIDR format, will find IPv6 four times as hard (or is that 2^96 times harder?). So we're back to "Who pays?" again! For training and new hardware. Personally, I think the two main benefits touted for IPv6: 1) Talking to the US military 2) Getting more traffic from people in China and Korea - I think I get quite enough already seem pretty uncompelling.