Starlink Helps Eight More Nations Pass 50% IPv6 Adoption (theregister.com)
(Friday June 27, 2025 @11:20AM (msmash)
from the moving-forward dept.)
- Reference: 0178200592
- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/06/27/0637210/starlink-helps-eight-more-nations-pass-50-ipv6-adoption
- Source link: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/27/ipv6_adoption_statistics/
Eight nations have [1]surpassed 50% IPv6 deployment since June 2024, bringing the total number of countries in the majority IPv6 club to 21, according to the [2]Internet Society . Brazil, Guatemala, Hungary, Japan, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Sri Lanka, and Tuvalu all crossed the threshold over the past year.
Tuvalu's adoption coincided with the arrival of Elon Musk's Starlink satellite broadband service, which operates as IPv6-only. The Internet Society's Pulse platform found no IPv6 deployment in the Pacific nation in June 2024, but Starlink now holds 88% market share there and 59% of Tuvalu's internet connections use IPv6.
France moved from third place to tie with India for the global lead at 73% IPv6 deployment. Japan rebounded from 49% to 55%, returning to the 50% club after dropping below the mark in mid-2024. Puerto Rico climbed from 49% to 53%. Thailand appears positioned to join next at 49% deployment, followed by Estonia at 46% and the United Kingdom at 45%.
[1] https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/27/ipv6_adoption_statistics/
[2] https://pulse.internetsociety.org/blog/more-countries-join-the-majority-ipv6-club
Tuvalu's adoption coincided with the arrival of Elon Musk's Starlink satellite broadband service, which operates as IPv6-only. The Internet Society's Pulse platform found no IPv6 deployment in the Pacific nation in June 2024, but Starlink now holds 88% market share there and 59% of Tuvalu's internet connections use IPv6.
France moved from third place to tie with India for the global lead at 73% IPv6 deployment. Japan rebounded from 49% to 55%, returning to the 50% club after dropping below the mark in mid-2024. Puerto Rico climbed from 49% to 53%. Thailand appears positioned to join next at 49% deployment, followed by Estonia at 46% and the United Kingdom at 45%.
[1] https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/27/ipv6_adoption_statistics/
[2] https://pulse.internetsociety.org/blog/more-countries-join-the-majority-ipv6-club
Puerto Rico is a nation? (Score:5, Insightful)
by Trip Ericson ( 864747 )
When did Puerto Rico leave the US?
Re: Puerto Rico is a nation? (Score:1)
by bswrchrd ( 174058 )
Exactly. I was coming to say that.
Its a bit of a halfway house (Score:2)
by Viol8 ( 599362 )
Self governing except for foreign policy and defense AFAIK. Why doesn't it just become a state?
Re: (Score:2)
by abulafia ( 7826 )
It would love to become a state.
One political party is dead-set against that happening.
ISDN (Score:1)
by flyingfsck ( 986395 )
IPv6 has some similarity with ISDN of yore: Innovation Subscribers Dont Need.
What will come first? (Score:2)
by 0xG ( 712423 )
Fusion power reactors?
Fully self driving cars?
Lasting world peace?
Getting completely off IPv4?
We really need to push IPv6 adoption (Score:2)
Time to start revoking ipv4 allocations and for network companies like Cisco to end of life ipv4 only equipment. Plus make all network certifications require ipv6. We eliminated TLS 1.1 and below, we can do the same for adoptimg ipv6. Operating systems have had built in support for over 20 years now, it's just badly written routers and lazy networking engineers preventing the transition.
Cisco (Score:4, Interesting)
Cisco will never end ipv4. Not anytime in the near or mid future, at least. The industrial vertical makes up a big chunk of their profit nowadays, and a large number of companies are running old hardware on plant floors. Think million dollar stamping presses and injection molding machines and CNC mills that run on OS/2 and Windows NT. These things must be networked to support the production execution system, coordinating with conveyors, robots, PLCs, inventory systems, SPC and inspection systems, etc...
It's the same reason a company still sells a PDP-11 emulator.
[1]https://www.stromasys.com/solu... [stromasys.com]
[1] https://www.stromasys.com/solution/charon-pdp-11-emulator/
Re: (Score:2)
Yeah but those systems shouldn't be connected to the open internet at all. Even if you don't want to airgap them, they should be behind a network topology that prevents them from connecting out freely, or accepting random connections inward.
Gear (Score:3)
> Yeah but those systems shouldn't be connected to the open internet at all. Even if you don't want to airgap them, they should be behind a network topology that prevents them from connecting out freely, or accepting random connections inward.
It's not about connecting to the open internet. The OP was talking about Cisco completely dropping ipv4 support. Cisco is a major supplier of industrial ethernet switches and routers, so that isn't going to happen. These industrial machines use ipv4 to talk to each other, and it *has* to be ipv4 because a lot of them predate the ipv6 standard, and there is no upgrade path to enable ipv6 support.
Re: (Score:2)
Why? I get why anything accessible on the public internet should be IPv6, but it doesn't matter for anything behind a NAT box. Why can't my home setup use IPv4? Or the tiny little network on my mobile robot that isn't connected to the internet? There are tons of cases where an isolated IPv4 setup with static addresses is simpler to setup and troubleshoot than an IPv6 network.
Re: (Score:2)
Because you probably want to connect from your home network to places on the Internet.
The way that works is that the machine on your network sends an IP packet with the remote machine's IP in the header. The src/dest address fields in the header of v4 packets are too small to fit a v6 address (which is sort of the whole reason we needed a new protocol in the first place), so this requires a revised header format that has enough space, i.e. v6 packets.
Nobody is saying that your home network can't use v4, it
Re: (Score:1)
It's a race to find which will happen first, IPv6 or Linux on the Desktop. Both are coming.
The push is ongoing, but the general consensus is: (Score:2)
Naaah.
It's odd but people like numbers they can remember for 2 minutes while they walk between machines.
We also don't really need everyone's toaster, can opener, and vibrator accessible to the internet.
All they really needed to do was add a country prefix number like the phone system to expand ipv4, instead ipv6 went all complicated and stuff.
127.0.0.1 vs eafd:45ac:5820:ffad:dead:beef::0 -- really? (apologies if that actually breaks out to a connectable address)
This (Score:2)
The human factor is something the people who devised IP6 completely ignored (or didn't even understand). A lot of network setup and troubleshooting requires knowing the numeric IP address , good luck with even trying to even write down an IP6 address, never mind remember it.
"All they really needed to do was add a country prefix number like the phone system"
Quite. A 16 bit value would have done it and for IP4 would have been zero and ignored, anything else you add it to the front, maybe like 1234:240.0.0.1 ,