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General IPv6 Topics => IPv6 Basics & Questions & General Chatter => Topic started by: fenrisulf on January 14, 2010, 03:16:47 PM
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Google is soliciting ideas for improving YouTube, why not vote for IPv6 support? Imagine how much v6 content traffic that could generate!
http://productideas.appspot.com/#9/e=3d60a&t=ipv6 (http://productideas.appspot.com/#9/e=3d60a&t=ipv6) (authorative from google's nameservers so it seems legit)
I hope the thought of supporting YouTube traffic doesn't scare HE and other tunnel providers too much ;)
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According to some Google people on the NANOG list, they're slowly but surely working on bringing IPv6 to google. So it's something that's going to happen regardless.
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static images for youtube are already served over ipv6. its the streaming/caching stuff that needs to get finalized before moving over (my personal guesstimate based on hostname lookups, etc.)
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The video streaming is v6-enabled too for 'viewers' on networks signed up to the Google-over-IPv6 (http://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/) programme. This looks like a recent change, and I'm sure one that will spin the v6 traffic stats up a bit! :)
Mathew
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Yeah. The streaming of video over IPv6 just started a few days ago. EDIT: Or maybe it was just yesterday?