Vote for IPv6 in Youtube

fenrisulf

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« on: January 14, 2010, 03:16:47 pm »

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 (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 Wink


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jimb

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Re: Vote for IPv6 in Youtube

« Reply #1 on: January 14, 2010, 04:39:57 pm »

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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broquea

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Re: Vote for IPv6 in Youtube

« Reply #2 on: January 14, 2010, 04:45:56 pm »

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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NewtonNet

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Re: Vote for IPv6 in Youtube

« Reply #3 on: January 28, 2010, 11:21:13 pm »

The video streaming is v6-enabled too for 'viewers' on networks signed up to the Google-over-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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jimb

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Re: Vote for IPv6 in Youtube

« Reply #4 on: January 29, 2010, 03:15:07 pm »

Yeah. The streaming of video over IPv6 just started a few days ago. EDIT: Or maybe it was just yesterday?


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