[ipv6-wg] New on RIPE Labs: Measuring IPv6 Capability of RIPE Atlas Probes

> Dear colleagues,
> 
> Please see a new article on RIPE Labs contributed by Stephane Bortzmeyer:
> 
> How Many RIPE Atlas Probes Believe They Have IPv6 (But Are Wrong)?
> 
> https://labs.ripe.net/Members/stephane_bortzmeyer/how-many-atlas-probes-believe-they-have-ipv6-but-are-wrong

(private contribution to this list as "somebody who cares")

This seems to highlight the problem that "Happy Eyeballs" was invented to hide: clients who think they have connectivity but in reality don't.

Now I appreciate HE as the customer friendly approach in suppressing the negative effects (timeouts) of this, but if the problem is as big as you say it is, namely over 10% this is a very nice and very big "disaster waiting to happen."

What happens when the first true IPv6-only services appear on net, that is 10% of your install base calling the support desk (if you're lucky) or taking their revenue elsewhere?

Which leads to some questions:

-Is 10% really a representative figure or do RIPEatlas probes have a higher chance of living in some experimental (and potentially broken) network. 
-Should there be some effort undertaken in finding the cause of this brokenness and getting it fixed.

And ultimately, is there anything the IPv6 WG should or could do?

Marco