"On March 28th, 50.1 percent of the traffic the company detected used IPv6, up from 46.33 percent a year earlier. Google's data records plenty of days over the last year when IPv6 carried over 49.5 percent of traffic, and a slow climb towards greater prevalence of traffic using the protocol."
"Internetworking boffins conceived of IPv6 after realizing IPv4's 4.3 billion available addresses would be insufficient to service the growing number of internet-connected devices. They therefore designed IPv6 around 128-bit addresses, meaning the IPv6 numberspace offers 340 undecillion addresses - 340 followed by 36 zeroes."
"Many therefore regard slow uptake of IPv6 as curious. The effectively unlimited availability of IPv6 meant pundits assumed network operators would swiftly adopt the protocol, especially after the pool of available IPv4 addresses dried up in the mid-2010s."
On March 28, IPv6 traffic reached 50.1% of Google's total, a rise from 46.33% the previous year. Google tracks IPv6 usage as a key indicator of its adoption. Despite this milestone, other sources report lower IPv6 usage, with Cloudflare noting 40.1% and APNIC labs at 43.13%. The slow adoption of IPv6 is surprising given its vast address space, designed to accommodate the growing number of internet-connected devices. The expectation was for rapid uptake after IPv4 addresses became scarce in the mid-2010s.
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