> On 12 Jul 2017, at 23:25, Nicholas Humfrey <nicholas.humf...@bbc.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have created a graph of UK IPv6 adoption for the past 6 months, based on 
> Google data:
> https://www.aelius.com/njh/google-ipv6/gb.html
> 
> We are now at #11 with 17.44%. Quite a lumpy graph.
> 
> I was hoping to see more of a gradual trend up upwards like other countries ( 
> for example Greece, Germany, India, Brazil, Japan):
> https://www.aelius.com/njh/google-ipv6/gr.html (+3%)
> https://www.aelius.com/njh/google-ipv6/de.html (+3%)
> https://www.aelius.com/njh/google-ipv6/jp.html (+4%)
> https://www.aelius.com/njh/google-ipv6/in.html (+6%)
> https://www.aelius.com/njh/google-ipv6/us.html (+7%)
> https://www.aelius.com/njh/google-ipv6/br.html (+8%)
> (Ignoring the global spike of Christmas/New Year)
> 
> Does anyone know what causes the ups and downs? – it doesn't seem to 
> correspond to weekends or anything like that.
> What happened on the 17th April?

See also: 
https://www.akamai.com/uk/en/about/our-thinking/state-of-the-internet-report/state-of-the-internet-ipv6-adoption-visualization.jsp

The periodic spikes are weekends. There’s just more IPv6 on residential vs. 
Enterprise networks.

> 
> The UK and Belgium graphs look very similar (just ~50% v. ~18%).
> But yes, this is only one source of data…
> 

Eric Vyncke’s chart 
(https://www.vyncke.org/ipv6status/plotpenetration.php?country=gb) clearly 
shows that different measurement methodologies yield different results.


Mat


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