Has IPv6 finally reached its day of glory?
It’s fair to say that IPv6 has not had the level of take-up expected when the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) ratified it back in 1998. Take-up has been agonizingly slow, not reaching 5 percent of traffic until 2014. However, the use of IPv6 has been slowly climbing since, and according to Google statistics, briefly accounted for 50.1% of the internet traffic Google sees on March 28.
However, technology publication The Register, which spotted the tiny but significant blip in Google’s traffic graphic, quoted two other sources: Cloudflare and APNIC Labs as stating that IPv6 had yet to reach such an exalted level: Cloudflare tracked it at a high of 43 percent, while APNIC registered that 43.13% of network hosts across the world were IPv6 capable.
