Tell HN: IPv6-only still pretty much unusable

Re:Tell HN: IPv6-only still pretty much unusable by can16358p on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @11:14AM (#33896092)

My whole country of 80 million people with very high Internet usage is still not supporting IPv6 at all (and residential connections are behind CGNAT). I'm pretty sure there are many more. IPv6 might be a thing in US or Europe, but definitely not in the world.

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Re:Tell HN: IPv6-only still pretty much unusable by scarmig on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @11:21AM (#33896199)

IPv6 penetration:

  1. France   72.63%
  2. India    66.47%
  3. Germany  65.45%
  4. Greece   62.13%
  5. Malaysia 60.03%
  ...
  15. United Arab Emirates  48.69%
  16. United States         47.99%

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Re:Tell HN: IPv6-only still pretty much unusable by noipv6 on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @11:32AM (#33896379)

is "not supporting IPv6 at all" a data-backed statement?

https://stats.labs.apnic.net/ipv6/ fwiw

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Re:Tell HN: IPv6-only still pretty much unusable by jeroenhd on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @02:52PM (#33899316)

Going by the "80 million" comment and the map you've linked, the countries that come closest are Germany (±60%), Iran (0.34%), and Turkey (1.79%).

Iran has an oppressive government with severe internet restrictions, so I'm not surprised they're not making IPv6 a priority. I'd assume their traffic interception devices don't work all that well without IPv4, they never seem to.

With 1.79% being IPv6 capable (not even configured), I'd say availability is effectively 0%. It's technically 2%, but I'd imagine those 2% are mostly hosting services and such.

Reverse sort the availability table and lots of countries have availability below even 5%. Nigeria, the 7th most populated country in the world, is at 0.38%. Lithuania, part of the EU and its economic bloc, is at 0.16%.

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