June 6, 2013 archive

RIPE Labs Reports on IPv6 Readiness of Today’s Networks

To what degree are network operators engaging with IPv6? How ready are they to deploy IPv6? Those were the questions RIPE Labs’ Antony Gollan took on in his post today on the RIPE Labs blog in celebration of the 1 year anniversary of World IPv6 Launch. The RIPE NCC, the regional Internet registry (RIR) for the European region, uses a measure they call “RIPEness” to rate the IPv6 readiness of their members (who RIPE refers to as “Local Internet Registries” or “LIRs”). As he shows in the chart, the situation has improved in the past year:

ipv6-ripeness

He also touches on an effort to create a “fifth star” of IPv6 RIPEness that would measure whether LIRs are providing content over IPv6 and providing IPv6 access to end users. He also goes on to talk about their measurements showing the percentage of networks announcing IPv6 prefixes into the global routing system – and provides an excellent chart showing the growth (you’ll need to read the post to see it).

It’s great to see these measurements and statistics from RIPE NCC that coincide so well with the information we’re seeing out of other IPv6 statistics sites, including the World IPv6 Launch measurements.

World IPv6 Launch Media Report #1 – Mythic Beasts, Telefonica in Peru, Municipal WiFI, CloudFlare and more…

World IPv6 Launch LogoWe’ve been thrilled to see all the articles, stories, blog posts, news releases and other media appearing about the anniversary of World IPv6 Launch. The stories are still streaming in and we’re tracking them through mechanisms like the #v6launch and #IPv6 hashtags on Twitter and on Google+.  Here are just a few of the many articles we found interesting today:

  • IPv6 Launch Day – One Year Later – In this Enterprise Networking Planet piece, Sean Michael Kerner interviewed the Internet Society’s Phil Roberts to catch up on what has changed in the last year.
  • Happy IPv6 Day: Usage On the Rise, Attacks Too – The good folks at CloudFlare gave some stats around the IPv6 traffic they are seeing and also detailed a couple of attacks they have seen over IPv6. They also provided their guesses as to when we turn off IPv4 on either a linear or exponential case. Needless to say, we hope it’s closer to the exponential side of things!
  • IPv6-Enabled Municipal WiFi Network in Douglasville, GA – While we don’t usually write about news releases related to IPv6 products or services, we did think this was a very cool milestone – the deployment of an IPv6-enabled municipal WiFi network in Douglasville, GA. From the news release: “The municipal WiFi network covers about 60 acres collectively, including downtown Douglasville, making it one of the largest public WiFi networks in Georgia.”  Apparently this was paid for by Google as part of its community outreach program and the company doing the deployment, Network Utility Force, also has  a TV interview online (and photos) where they explain the project more.  It would be great to see more of these municipal WiFi networks launch with IPv6 from the beginning!
  • IPv6 in action: How Mythic Beasts does it - This piece on TechRepublic provides a case study in how Mythic Beasts, a hosting provider in the UK, has set up their systems to work over IPv6. Great to see technical pieces like this.
  • Telefonica Pushes Ahead with IPV6 Support in Peru - Telefónica indicated that it has selected Peru as its first country for a wide IPv6 deployment. They also issued a press release reaffirming their support for IPv6 and stating that they are leading IPv6 deployment in Latin America.
  • IPv6: Less Talk and More Walk – Over on CircleID, Bruce Sinclair had an interesting post about how they had tracked the “buzz” around IPv6 across tweets, blogs and news stories and found that there was less buzz and more just getting IPv6 done.
  • Future Internet gets boost, courtesy of IPv6! – The European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) had a nice short post out but what I enjoyed was their note that ENISA was the first EU agency to adopt IPv6 way back in 2009!

Plus a great article from our friends at RIPE Labs that we’ll cover separately.

All great to see!

P.S. And while we generally don’t write about ads here, I will give a shoutout to Fluke Networks for posting to Google+ the only advertisement I’ve seen today that specifically calls out “World IPv6 Day”.  (Note to Fluke: We’ve only used “Day” back in 2011, but hey you’re not alone in that given other articles out there.)

P.P.S. And if you are looking to get started with IPv6, please check out our IPv6 resources, particularly our new tutorial on making content available over IPv6.

New Tutorial: Making Content Available Over IPv6

mcaoipv6-01-nativipv6How can you best make your web content available over IPv6? What are the different strategies you can use? What are the advantages and disadvantages of using dual-stack, load balancers, 6to4, NAT64 and proxy servers?

On this, the 1st anniversary of World IPv6 Launch, we are delighted to publish a new tutorial on this exact topic.  Titled simply “Making Content Available Over IPv6“, the new document is available at:

http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/resources/making-content-available-over-ipv6/

The tutorial is written by Sander Steffann, who has a great amount of experience with IPv6, and covers the steps for how you can make your content available over IPv6 using:

  • Native IPv6
  • Using load balancers
  • Using IPv6-to-IPv4 proxy servers
  • NAT64

He provides some excellent diagrams and examples of configuration files and assesses both the benefits and drawbacks of each solution.

We encourage you to take a read through this document and please do let us know if this helps you make your content available over IPv6!

 

TDYR #013 – The 1-Year Anniversary Of World IPv6 Launch – And Why IPv6 Is So Important

Today is the 1-year anniversary of World IPv6 Launch - what has changed in the year since with IPv6 growth? And why should you care, anyway? Today I discussed all that... http://www.worldipv6launch.org/ http://www.worldipv6launch.org/infographic/ http://www.worldipv6launch.org/measurements/ http://www.worldipv6launch.org/blog/ http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/ http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/resources/making-content-available-over-ipv6/