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This concern about an extra few bytes is substantial in approximately zero organizations' IPv6 adoption decisions.


In fact some of the earliest adopters of IPv6 were Google, Microsoft, Netflix. Companies who when you're considering the problem of (N * a few bytes) have a very large N so are the most likely to have material costs from it. Yet even to them, it's a rounding error.


Pedantic note:

For Netflix the cost is actually especially low. Cost as a percent of bandwidth is (a few bytes / packet size), and when you're streaming enormous media files packets are almost always max size.




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