[AusNOG] Apple say "biasing towards IPv6 is now beneficial for our customers"

[Mark Smith]

On 14 Jul 2015 3:20 pm, "Michael Biber" <mbiber at ipv6forum.com.au> wrote:
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http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/579447/apple-give-ipv6-traffic-boost/
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> "While our previous implementation from four years ago was designed to
select the connection with lowest latency no matter what, we agree that the
Internet has changed since then and reports indicate that biasing towards
IPv6 is now beneficial for our customers: IPv6 is now mainstream instead of
being an exception, there are less broken IPv6 tunnels, IPv4 carrier-grade
NATs are increasing in numbers, and throughput may even be better on
average over IPv6."
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Possibly the more significant thing is that Apple are making IPv6 support
for apps a mandatory requirement for IOS 9 and later.

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2015/06/apple-to-ios-devs-ipv6-only-cell-service-is-coming-soon-get-your-apps-ready/

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> IPv6 coming in from the cold maybe?
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> Cheers
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> Mike Biber
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> IPv6Now
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