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Good news, but looks like the site is down currently.

In summary: Facebook, Google, Yahoo and Bing will permanently turn on IPv6 on June 6. Some ISP's also joined, but it's not yet clear what they do at that date -- it may be as little as allowing users to opt-in for IPv6 testing in restricted areas.

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It seems that Verizon's 4G LTE service already has IPv6 in production - I was issued an IPv6 address without having to do anything in particular. I wouldn't be surprised if other ISPs followed suit by just flipping the switch to enable it for everyone.

Thats unusual. A real IP? What is it?

2600:100f:b002:96cf:54e1:a288:bb8:8424, currently. Incoming ICMP and SYN packets seem to be filtered, but that's reasonable for an ostensibly mobile service.

Cool have been waiting for the promised ipv6 on mobile but never seen it actually shipping before. Do you get an ipv4 nat address too or not?

Yeah, I get NAT'd IPv4 as well.

Yes, the WorldIPv6Day.org site is currently down but they're working on bringing it back up: https://twitter.com/#!/WorldIPv6Launch/status/15932845731310...

http://www.worldipv6launch.org/ is now back up.

My ISP (Free) is participating, and the timeline went: opt-in IPv6 in 2007, IPv6-enabled Google in 2009, enabled by default for new subscribers in 2011. The 1% requirement is pretty weak, I'm more excited by the web companies flipping the switch.

Maybe they tried to enable AAAA lookups?

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