Has IPv6 Peaked?
Several articles have attempted to address the topic of IPv6 Internet penetration over the years, including some of mine, based on metrics compiled and published by google in terms of the percentage of IPv6 connection attempts to their websites with respect to total attempts. Certainly this is but one metric of IPv6 end user devices and a convenient one at that. Over time I've fitted trend lines to these data points in an attempt to gauge the present and predict future penetration growth. Let's take a look at how those trends and forecasts have changed with increasing data points over time. We'll examine these cases with the application of a third order polynomial trend line in each scenario for consistency. The following chart illustrates three such trends and predictions at roughly two year intervals. A dotted vertical line for each prediction indicates the point in time when the projection of the corresponding matching color was made. For our first prediction in June, 20