[address-policy-wg] 2007-08 New Policy Proposal (Enabling Methods for Reallocation of IPv4 Resources)

On 29 okt 2007, at 17:47, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ wrote:

> The fact is that there is much more IPv6 traffic that what we believe,

I'm quickly approaching my posting limit for the day (week?) but I  
can't resist telling you the following story:

I recently found myself somewhere where BitTorrent is severely  
throttled. Although I can download over HTTP at megabytes per second,  
BitTorrent downloads wouldn't go faster than 10 kilobytes per second.

Turns out that the newest Azureus (BitTorrent application) supports  
IPv6. Enabled this and lo and behold: I got about 75 peers, 5 of which  
were IPv6, the rest IPv4. Of the IPv6 peers, one had a regular IPv6  
address, the other four 6to4 addresses. Even though the 70 IPv4 peers  
could only give me 10 kB/s, the 5 IPv6 peers pushed my download well  
beyond 100 kB/s.

So under the right circumstances, a little IPv6 can go a long way.