Posted by Aaronmacaron 1 day ago
Does anybody know why that might be the case? What's the story of IPv6 deployment in France?
https://www.arcep.fr/la-regulation/grands-dossiers-internet-...
This gives operators a benefit of the vertical control for the whole ecosystem - from top to the bottom, including intricate parts of protocols and routing. And France, in contrast to other countries, does not suck here too - operators usually do a good job of meticulously maintaining their assets.
My personal impression is that this is the result of several cultural factors:
1. Ingrained respect of privacy, private property, and a peace of heart as they call it. As a practical result of that, you do not get spammy messages and ads from operators, banks, etc. You may get some, like 3 or 4 discounts/offers in a year. Compare that to other countries where you can easily get 10s/100s messages like that in a single day. In other countries, instead of upgrading the infrastructure, people are busy with spamming each other.
2. The harsh oceanic environment with hurricanes and storms fosters an appreciation for reliability and functionality. It also encourages a certain frugality: every cent matters. As a result, people tend to develop a strong sensitivity to situations where form is prioritized over function, and such approaches are quickly dismissed as impractical. This gives a certain internal freedom of being able to see through things to determine what they are in the long run and not what they appear to be on the surface.
3. French people don't like to overwork outside of working hours. So choosing something like IPv6 over IPv4 seems like a natural forward-looking investment for the future where you can have less maintenance burden and thus you can devote more time to enjoying other things in life.
Having all those things combined, it's not hard to see why France chose IPv6. It's a natural choice there and it's imposed by survival.
P.S. I've spent some time in France, but was born in another country.
It's been discussed on the apnic blog and at meetings heaps
When I lived in India, everything had IPv6 out of the box.
Has something changed for the worse?
The story is that at the beginning I had IPv6, and a shared dynamic IPv4 behind a CGNAT, I asked for a rollback to a full duplex static IPv4 and for three years I had both a static personal IPv4 and an IPv6. A few weeks ago my router went down and since it went back up, I no longer have an IPv6 address. I called my ISP and they explained that I could either have IPv6 or a static IPv4, but not both, and that it's abnormal that I had both for so long… welp, it's sad to see IPv6 but getting it back is not worth abandoning my static IPv4 and going back to a dynamic shared IPv4.
A cheap VPS or one with spare bandwidth with > /64 that is properly routed (some providers do NDP for some reason) and a Wireguard tunnel would also get you a simple DIY solution.
EDIT: Apparently it's 77% https://pulse.internetsociety.org/en/news/2026/01/china-hits...
How would Google know what users have the potential for IPv6 if they are not using it?
I get the whole s-curve trend but if I squint at 2017, there is an inflection to slow the s-curve down.
Annoyingly, when setting up service with a fiber company in the last couple months, I explicitly asked about IPv6 connectivity and they said, "yes." Turns out "yes, but not in my region."
ABC, Always Be Closing.
amazon.com needs to get with the program. Still IPv4 only.
Personal web server running dual stack since early 2010s currently sees 18-20% v6 traffic. When split by type, counting only mobile users it reaches 30% at peak.
Bot/crawler traffic is ironically 100% v4.
Meanwhile: enabled h3 in september last year for the fun of it, instantly at >40% traffic by request count, passing 50% since the beginning of the year, h2 accounting almost all the remaining traffic and plain ssl/http requests <1% being just bots.
> IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark
Graph description:
> The graph shows the percentage of users that access Google over IPv6
There are reasons to expect both much more and much less traffic per user on IPv6 compared to IPv4...