Rosenzweig: The federation fallacy

Posted Mar 5, 2019 0:50 UTC (Tue) by NYKevin (subscriber, #129325)
In reply to: Rosenzweig: The federation fallacy by khim
Parent article: Rosenzweig: The federation fallacy

Look at the per-country breakdown. China is at 4%. Other countries are similar or worse, including Korea (4%) and several developed European countries (Spain at 2%, Italy 3%, Denmark 3.5%, Iceland <1%).

Sure, we can probably get away with jettisoning some of those countries from our Brave New IPv6 World, but not all of them. In particular, I imagine China will adopt IPv6 when China feels like it, and not on anyone else's timetable.

Rosenzweig: The federation fallacy

Posted Mar 5, 2019 11:45 UTC (Tue) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]

I don't see how China is ever relevant. They purposefully build completely separated Internet with tightly controlled connection to the "global" one.

The fact that they don't want to allow people to have independent servers there is unfortunate, but I don't see why this should affect the rest of the world.

Other countries would quickly adopt IPv6 if there would be incentive: hardware and everything is out there.

The critical point is 50% since after that it becomes more lucrative to bring more IPv6 users on board than to try to help remaining IPv4 users - and many contries are very close.

Rosenzweig: The federation fallacy

Posted Mar 5, 2019 13:17 UTC (Tue) by jem (subscriber, #24231) [Link]

"In the last couple of months, we have seen evidence that points to large-scale deployment of IPv6 services in China. This is most evident in the regional networks of China Mobile and in ChinaNet."

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"If one was to look to China to be the last piece in a critical mass of IPv6 deployment that will propel the Internet's migration over the coming years, then the picture is looking very encouraging."

http://www.circleid.com/posts/20190102_ipv6_in_china/