Covid-19 and IPv6 Usage
With increasing numbers of white collar workers hunkering down within their homes across the globe over the past couple of weeks, full time working from home is becoming the norm - at least while Corona virus social distancing measures are in place. I was curious how this shift in worker locale might impact IPv6 usage around the world. One popular benchmark is Google's IPv6 statistics, which measures the percentage of IPv6 browser connections to its websites. Images from https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html Over the 12+ years of data points within the graph, the data has exhibited a periodicity with a relative spike on weekend days and nominally lower percentage values during workdays. This leads one to surmise that remote users, when at home, more often connect via IPv6 than when in the office. This theory is supported by the sustained higher percentages of IPv6 utilization during the Christmas holidays in late December and now during the general Corona vir