IPv6 Act Now

The internet’s technical governing body plans to make a push to educate the global users of the internet on the network’s latest generation technology known as IPv6, Rod Beckstrom, president and CEO of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), said this week.

Less than 10 percent of internet addresses are available on the current IPv4 system – there’s only about 380 million IPv4 network addresses left and dropping quite quickly, he told the packed conference room on 27 January at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC.

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Maria Häll, Deputy Director for the Ministry of Enterprise, Energy and Communications in Sweden, and Co-chair of the RIPE Cooperation Working Group, talks about the role governments can play in encouraging IPv6 deployment in our latest video interview.

For the full transcript, as well as other interviews with community figures, see IPv6 Act Now.

In 1999, while at Network World, Carolyn Marsan and I interviewed Vint Cerf about IPv6. Cerf was beseeching the entire industry to move as quickly a possible to IPv6 since IPv4 addresses were running out.

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All the talk early this year seems to be about LTE deployment to alleviate chronic Apple and other smartphones induced indigestion on the AT&T and other major Mobile Networks swamped by data traffic.

The telluric shift albeit the user will not care or should not notice is that when he or she will power on that smartphone or whatever the communicating Swiss Knife will be called, it will request an IP address to complete an IP based call. A device without an IP address will be rather difficult to reach and the ungodly NATword should not even be whispered. The comfort of the good old circuit switched network core will be gone in the LTE era.

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Comcast today announced plans to conduct production-network trials of IPv6 technology this year. The trials are aimed at helping identify and solve any areas of difficulty involved in the transition to IPv6, and to determine what approach will be the easiest and most seamless for its customers, says Jason Livingood, Comcast’s Internet System Engineer.

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Australia could be home to one of the largest education networks to operate on the Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) platform within two months. Technology pundits have called for vendors and users to migrate to IPv6 as vacant IPv4 addresses space dry up. Regional Internet Registries have warned that less than 10 per cent of addresses remain and are predicted to run out by 2012.

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Businesses in the UK need to start planning for the next generation of Internet Protocols, called IPv6, if they want to take advantage of new technology, an expert has said.

“The key thing here is planning because if you’re forced to do something very quickly then obviously it’s going to be really expensive,” said Simon McCalla, director of IT at Nominet.

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The IPv4 over-allocation comes up frequently in discussing the eventual exhaustion of available IPv4 addresses; in fact, Michael Kassner’s recent post explains how available addresses are almost exhausted and that the days are limited for IPv4. The current situation of the IPv4 address space can be visualized to show who has what addresses, what is full, and what is available.

There are a number of resources to help determine what the Internet looks like and how it moves between geographic zones. Here are a few ways we can visualize what the Internet’s IPv4 addresses and connections look like.

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Sheng Jiang (Huawei) and Brian Carpenter (University of Auckland, research consultant to Huawei) are currently running a questionnaire on IPv6 deployment, addressed to every ISP. The purpose is to provide facts for a document about deployment scenarios that we are drafting for discussion in the IETF.

All responses will be kept strictly confidential and the study’s authors will publish only combined results, with no information about individual ISPs in any published results. You can also request that neither you, nor your ISP, be mentioned in the acknowledgments.

Please find the questionnaire at
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~brian/ISP-v6-QQ.html

Answers are requested ASAP.

The recession that has lead to the restructuring of the of the global economy actually proved to be a go-ahead time for the Internet users. There was a major exhaustion of the IP addresses in 2009, despite the furore of global meltdown.

In a new report by Geoff Huston, Chief Scientist at the Asia Pacific Network Information Center (APNIC) named ‘2009 in Review – the IP Address Registry Perspective’, the IP addresses allocation pointed out that a growing Asia Pacific ICT sectors and high penetration rates for mobile Internet globally are the two major trends that have dominated the IP address pool.

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