Aussie ISPs “a timid lot” when it comes to IPv6
23 Dec 2009
Australian ISPs have been branded “a timid lot” for their tardiness in providing support for the new Internet address protocol IPv6, soon to be essential as the IPv4 address space becomes exhausted.
Writing in the latest edition of his organisation’s newsletter, ‘The Standard’, Michael Biber, professional services manager at IPv6 consultancy IPv6Now, notes that only seven percent of Australia’s Autonomous Systems are IPv6 ready, and he contrasts this with New Zealand at 18 percent and with Jersey, Cuba and Vatican City all of which, he says have between 50 percent and 100 percent IPv6 capability, although he does acknowledge that this may be due to them having few autonomous systems (essentially a group of Internet routers under common administrative or technical control).
