The FCC and interested stakeholders met Wednesday to consider IPv6...
The FCC and interested stakeholders met Wednesday to consider IPv6 issues for current and next-generation testing architectures, said an ex parte filing made by the commission (http://xrl.us/bn6wqd). The first tests could confirm the ability of consumer premise equipment to use…
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IPv6 protocols, and whether IPv6 was available from the broadband provider, the FCC and stakeholders said. Current estimates are that, among broadband users with IPv6 connectivity, 20 percent of traffic is IPv6 -- and tracking this statistic would valuable to the FCC and others, they said. “Reachability” of hosts over IPv6 is also a valuable statistic, because peering on IPv6 paths can vary between different Internet businesses, they said. IPv6 connections have shown performance benefits for some path because IPv4 connections that traverse carrier network address translation gateways can experience performance degradations, they said.