2020-08-07 15:42:40 +00:00
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title: 2020 is the year of IPv6
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pub_date: 2020-08-07
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author: ungleich
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twitter_handle: ungleich
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abstract:
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IPv6 is beginning to take off in 2020
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When is IPv6 beginning to matter? When is IPv6 taking off? These are
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questions that we debate in the IPv6 community at meetings and online.
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For us, 2020 has already become the year of IPv6.
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2020-08-07 16:09:40 +00:00
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## IPv6 traffic reached more than 33% (1/3) of traffic to Google
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Acccording to google
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2020-08-07 16:09:40 +00:00
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## Some countries passed the 50% IPv6 deployment status
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2020-08-07 16:09:40 +00:00
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[India](https://stats.labs.apnic.net/ipv6/IN),
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[Belgium](https://stats.labs.apnic.net/ipv6/BE),
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[the US](https://stats.labs.apnic.net/ipv6/US),
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[Malaysa](https://stats.labs.apnic.net/ipv6/MY) - all of them have
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passed the 50% IPv6 deployment mark. **India even surpassed the 70%
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mark!**
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2020-08-07 16:09:40 +00:00
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And [Greece](https://stats.labs.apnic.net/ipv6/GR) and
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[Germany](https://stats.labs.apnic.net/ipv6/DE) are not far from
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passing the 50% mark.
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In other words: if you are living or travelling to above countries,
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you have a 50% chance of getting IPv6 - and it's growing.
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## IPv6 community is active and growing
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At the moment there are so many cool IPv6 projects and communities
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around, as many as we have never seen active before. Let us list some
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projects we are aware of:
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* [IPv6 Buzz](https://packetpushers.net/series/ipv6-buzz/) by Ed
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Horley, Scott Hogg, and Tom Coffeen
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* [IPv6 on Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/ipv6/)
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* [The IPv6 Chat on Matrix and IRC](/u/projects/ipv6-chat/)
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Did we miss a community? Just [let us know about it](/u/contact/).
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## IPv6 hardware/software support improving
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For many years we have been watching IPv6 support in (network)
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hardware and open source software. And while not every everything is
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fixed, many pain points have been solved. And what is even better:
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even if your network equipment does not nicely work with IPv6, a lot
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of equipment can now be made IPv6 usable just by flashing
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[OpenWRT](https://openwrt.org/).
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