Xah Lee, 2008-12-05
Some brush-up reading on some internet protocols:
Some quotes:
A recent study[1] by Google indicates that penetration is still less than one percent of Internet traffic in any country. The leaders are Russia (0.76%), France (0.65%), Ukraine (0.64%), Norway (0.49%), and the United States (0.45%). Although Asia leads in terms of absolute deployment numbers, the relative penetration is smaller (e.g., China: 0.24%). IPv6 is implemented on all major operating systems in use in commercial, business, and home consumer environments. According to the study, Mac OS leads in IPv6 penetration of 2.44%, followed by Linux (0.93%) and Windows Vista (0.32%).[2]
In September 2005 a report by Cisco Systems (a network hardware manufacturer) suggested that the pool of available addresses would dry up in as little as 4 to 5 years.[6] As of November 2007, a daily updated report projected that the IANA pool of unallocated addresses would be exhausted in May 2010, with the various Regional Internet Registries using up their allocations from IANA in April 2011
The 2008 Summer Olympic Games were a notable event in terms of IPv6 deployment. For the first time a major World event has had a presence on the IPv6 Internet at http://ipv6.beijing2008.cn/en (IP addresses 2001:252:0:1::2008:6 and 2001:252:0:1::2008:8) and all network operations of the Games were conducted using IPv6.[29]It is believed that the Olympics provided the largest showcase of IPv6 technology since the inception of IPv6.[30]