IPv6 adoption moving at glacial pace
A study this week has revealed the slow rate of adoption for IPv6, the next version of the Internet's main communications protocol, and some experts say black markets where companies trade unused IP addresses may be only a few years away.
The report, from Arbor Networks, claims to be the most comprehensive study of IPv6 use to date. It includes few surprises for those who follow the area closely, but the results provide a sobering measure of how slowly the technology has been adopted.
"At its peak, IPv6 represented less than one hundredth of 1% of Internet traffic" over the past year, Arbor Networks' Chief Scientist Craig Labovitz wrote in a summary of the findings, adding wryly: "This is somewhat equivalent to the allowed parts of contaminants in drinking water."
