Looking for historical Data on V6

Apologies to those cross-posted on the V6 Tech list: Hi all, I am just putting together a couple of graphs (see attached spreadsheet). comparing historical V4 deployment (currently looking at number of published A records as my metric) to the current v6 deployment. Rather than make a direct comparison of v6 vs v4 AS's etc as in Geoff Hustons reports, I am looking to show that the size of the v6 Internet is roughly equivalent to the size of X historical point in time of the v4 Internet. Currently using the DNS A/AAAA record metrics it looks like the current size of V6 Internet is around the same size of the historical 1998 V4 internet. I know using A/AAAA records isn't the greatest of metrics, but with the point in mind of showing historical comparative sizings is I think useful for showing the need to be engaged actively in deploying V6. Any further suggested approaches and especially data sources for furnishing this investigation appreciated. Kind regards -JoelW

On 4 May 2010, at 06:07, Joel Wiramu Pauling wrote:
Any further suggested approaches and especially data sources for furnishing this investigation appreciated.
Routing table analysis. bview file snapshots. http://www.ripe.net/projects/ris/rawdata.html Andy

Thanks Andy, this data doesn't go back far enough tho, I am trying to find the point at which the v4 internet and the current v6 internet match in size. Using bgp data may be another route to pursue if I can get some older data. Based on some simple linear regressions on the number of domains registered, and assuming that prior to the dot com bubble a domain registration was roughly equivalent to A >= 1 and thus a fairly highly correlated measure of host count (not in frequency but in relative proportion), and comparing to current V6 AAAA DNS records info, I am getting a rough period of around 96-98 sometime. -JoelW On 6 May 2010 00:50, Andy Davidson <andy(a)nosignal.org> wrote:
On 4 May 2010, at 06:07, Joel Wiramu Pauling wrote:
Any further suggested approaches and especially data sources for furnishing this investigation appreciated.
Routing table analysis. bview file snapshots.
http://www.ripe.net/projects/ris/rawdata.html
Andy
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