What were the results of World IPv6 Day? Who participated? What results did they see? What were lessons to be learned? In this presentation at the Internet ON (ION) Conference in Toronto on November 14, 2011, the Internet Society’s Dan York walked through these points and more in a 15-minute presentation.
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World IPv6 Day Recap (ION Toronto 2011)
1. World IPv6 Day Recap
Dan York
Senior Content Strategist
Internet Society
Internet ON – Toronto
November 14, 2011
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6. Who turned up IPv6 on June 8?
www.google.com
www.facebook.com
www.youtube.com
www.yahoo.com
www.yahoo.co.jp
1000’s of
www.bing.com
www.microsoft.com companies!
www.bbc.co.uk
www.cnn.com
www.aol.com
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7. Hosting companies added 1000s of domains
www.host.md (@4500 - permanent)
www.task.com.br (@7000 – left on)
www.df.eu (@700,000)
www.strato.de (@4,000,000 – left on)
… others with 1000s and 10000s of thousands
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18. Broad observations
Participating sites
§ Documented through an IPv6 reachability dashboard
– http://www.worldipv6day.org/participants-dashboard/index.html
§ Roughly 2/3rds of the participating sites who contacted us
remained on
Traffic increased and remained higher
§ Ripe Labs measured impact on IPv6 traffic
– http://labs.ripe.net/Members/emileaben/measuring-world-ipv6-
day-long-term-effects
Great technical benefits for those who participated!
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20. UNhappy Eyeballs
DNS
Svr
example.com A 192.168.20.12
example.com AAAA 2001:db8:34a5::1234
AAAA
?
You (a long time later...)
A
?
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21. Happy Eyeballs
DNS
Svr
example.com A 192.168.20.12
example.com AAAA 2001:db8:34a5::1234
AAAA
?
A
?
You
(sent at same time;
whichever replies first wins)
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23. Happy Eyeballs In Action
• Google added “Fast Fallback” to Chrome
• Mozilla added similar feature to Firefox
• Apple added similar feature to Mac OS X Lion
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24. Next Step with Happy Eyeballs
Applying The Concept To
Protocols Other Than HTTP
(SMTP, SIP, SSH, etc.)
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