You jest, but global IPv6 penetration is at ~16%. It rose ~6% last year, so if linear growth is presumed (and it's actually been growing closer to exponentially, as would be expected) we should hit 20% late this year. I'm hopeful that we'll see some decent pickup of it since AWS finally started offering it.
This is global adoption; some countries, including the United States, have already hit 20%.
>The graph shows the percentage of users that access Google over IPv6.
I'm finding it really hard to believe, as someone in Guatemala, that 6% of requests to Google here are made over IPv6. Is there any way to gain more insight? e.g. what ISPs are responsible?
It looks like it's correlated with the weekend. I guess workplace computers are more likely to use IPv4? It makes sense on the surface. Workplaces have little to no incentive to use IPv6 since they either have a huge block of IPv4 space or run NAT or both. Also they tend to rely more on enterprise network appliances which have bad IPv6 support in my experience. IPv6 is more of a boon to consumer applications since carrier-grade NAT is a nuisance and otherwise you need an IP per customer.
Every employer except one that I've worked for had IPv4 only. None of them had public IP blocks; they were all NAT'd.
> Also they tend to rely more on enterprise network appliances which have bad IPv6 support in my experience.
This I would believe.
> IPv6 is more of a boon to consumer applications since carrier-grade NAT is a nuisance and otherwise you need an IP per customer.
It would have been a slight boon at work, too. HR perennially makes me grab documents/data off my home machine, and I cannot wait for the day when I can just `ssh` to a domain name. My .ssh/config aliases are getting pretty good, but it still adds considerable latency to pipe everything through a gateway. (Alternatively, I could run SSH on non-standard ports, but I've yet to get to mucking around with the port-forwarding settings for that.)
There were also times when we needed to do stuff like employee laptop-to-laptop communications, and the network just wouldn't deal with it. I was never sure if this was NAT, or just that Corp Net liked to drop packets. (It seemed rigged to drop basically anything that didn't smell like a TCP connection to an external host. ICMP wasn't fully functional, which of course makes engineering more fun when you're having your personal desktop at home do pings or traceroutes for you, but that doesn't help if the problem is on your route.)
Offices. Corporations hugely lag in technology: I still continue to run across Internal App™ at Big Corp Inc that only works with IE 6 — and that's not just lagging, that's ancient. It should be no surprise their Internet infrastructure also lags. My current and last two employers both were IPv4 only.
This is global adoption; some countries, including the United States, have already hit 20%.
[1]: https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html