ISP's are seeing a large amount of inbound IPv6 traffic originating from Google. Carolyn Marsan of Network World writes: "Google has quietly turned on IPv6 support for its YouTube video streaming Web site, sending a spike of IPv6 traffic across the Internet that has continued from last Thursday until Monday. Industry observers say YouTube appeared to be supporting IPv6 in production mode, as opposed to running a test of the next-generation Internet protocol."

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