Re: [GLOBAL-V6] Increased traffic on AMS-IX

[Paul Vixie <paul@vix.com>]

> ...
> http://www.ams-ix.net/technical/stats/sflow_stats_ipv6.html
> 
> Apparently on April 8 in the afternoon happened "something" that made 
> the v6 traffic about doubled immediately. Has some major website turned 
> IPv6 on or what? I'm just curious.

coincidentally, the ARIN XXI IPv6 Main Event was held on that same day:

	http://www.arin.net/ARIN-XXI/v6_pregame.html
	http://www.mail-archive.com/arin-announce%40arin.net/msg00056.html
	http://go6.net/4105/news-details.asp?news_id=1093

the following day, Rocky Mountain IPv6 Task Force (RMv6TF) held its
inaugural meeting:

	http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_8849746

what i suspect happened is that folks did some hurry up / finish up IPv6
deployment to get ready for the ARIN XXI IPv6-only testathon hour, and some
of this new capacity was then left in place, and found by a number of dual
stack end systems who have been trying to fetch AAAA RRs and reach them for
a long time, and their luck is improving.

alas, this trick won't work every meeting.  nanog did it, ietf did it, and
arin did it, and in each case a bunch of network operators were present who
could make their own home stuff reachable by IPv6 before everybody in the
room started trying to reach it.  it's not a scalable approach to growth,
and the growth itself may not be sustainable.