Fix6 – IPv6 News and info

The RIPE NCC is pleased to announce the launch of the IPv6 Act Now! website.

www.IPv6ActNow.org is a one stop website that explains IPv6 in terms that everyone can understand and provides a variety of useful information aimed at promoting the global adoption of IPv6.

The site is for anyone with an interest in IPv6, including network engineers, company directors, law enforcement agencies, government representatives and civil society.

The site content is regularly updated and includes:

- Education, advice and opinions from the experts
- Latest IPv6-related news stories
- Videos and articles from Internet community leaders
- Current IPv4 exhaustion and IPv6 uptake statistics
- The RIPE community’s statement on IPv6 deployment, including a list of organisations supporting this statement
- Information on community-developed IPv6 distribution policies
- Useful links to other sources of information about IPv6
- A forum for everyone to share experiences, ask questions and find answers

The site also includes contributions from other Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) and industry partners.

We invite you to take a look around the site. We hope that you find it useful.

If you have and comments or suggestions about IPv6ActNow!, please
contact us at <ipv6actnow@ripe.net>.

Regards,

Paul Rendek

Head of External Relations and Communication
RIPE NCC

Interoute is the owner operator of Europe’s most advanced and densely connected voice and data network, encompassing over 57,000 kms of lit fibre and 59 data centres.

Its full-service next generation network serves more than 12,000 customers across a broad range of sectors from finance to retail and every major European incumbent, as well as the major operators of North America, East and South Asia, governments, universities and research agencies.

Interoute, owner operator of Europe’s largest next-generation network, has increased the capacity of its network to include native support for the incoming IPv6 Internet protocol.

Matthew Finnie, Interoute’s joint CTO/CIO commented, “By incorporating IPv6 capability into our network we are a step ahead of forecasts made by industry analysts who estimate that the range of possible new addresses for IPv4 may reach a limit as early as 2011. The investment in a native IPv6 capability is testament to Interoute’s commitment to ensuring its customers have access to the most advanced services from Europe’s most advanced network.”

Interoute’s Native IPv6 service means that any customer wanting to adopt this next generation protocol will be able to. In addition, Interoute will not make any additional charge for enabling IPv6 over and above the standard tariff.

More about Interroute and their IPv6 can be found on: http://www.interoute.com/news_and_events/news/1303

The RIPE NCC is using this week as an opportunity to interview the RIPE community about IPv6 and how it relates to their work. The video interviews will be used in the RIPE NCC’s IPv6 training and communication activities.

If you have had experience with IPv6 in your organisation and would like to share your story, please contact Rumy Kanis, RIPE NCC Training Services Manager, at rumy@ripe.net or ask at the Registration Desk to schedule a filming appointment.

Also here are the hilights from yesterdays RIPE-58 meeting:

There were three Plenary sessions on Tuesday filled with presentations and discussions, followed by the RIPE IPv6 Working Group.

The 11:00 Plenary session was themed around IPv6, with presentations on deployment experiences and trials. The afternoon Plenary session featured an “Overview of DNSSEC Trust Anchor Repositories (TARs)” by Ólafur Guðmundsson of Shinkuro Inc., which prompted some intense audience discussion on the merits of DNSSEC TARs. UCLA’s Eric Osterweil continued the DNSSEC theme, looking at “Availability Problems in the DNSSEC Deployment”, while Ethan Katz-Bassett of the University of Washington presented his work on Reverse Traceroute.

The IPv6 Working Group session featured a presentation by Google’s Lorenzo Colitti on Google’s IPv6 activities and an overview of IPv6 Teredo and 6to4 experiences by Martin J. Levy of Hurricane Electric. Maarten Botterman, TNO, also invited the RIPE community to take part in an EU IPv6 Deployment Survey. Lively discussion on several presentations proved that IPv6 continues to be a hot topic for the RIPE community.

Don’t forget that there will also be an IPv6 Peering BoF on Wednesday 6 May at 16:00 near the cloakroom.

For more hilights of the the meeting check: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-58/meeting-report.php

XS4ALL has delivered their first native IPv6 ADSL connection. This was announced today on the Ripe-58 meeting we wrote about a couple days ago.

In cooperation with AVM, supplier of the Fritzbox modems,  XS4all has connected the first home with an native IPv6 modem.

According to XS4ALL-expert Marco Hogewoning its a milestone for XS4ALL.

After this first successful test run, XSALL wants to try and make IPv6 available for the current customers aswell in the near future.

For some time we have seen IPv6 logo’s come and go. Some even more horrific then the other.

As such we would like to present an logo that you can use, and doesnt look that bad:

and a little smaller:

And for the do it yourselvers we have uploaded the PSD, use it as you see fit!

http://www.fix6.net/wp-content/ipv6-logo.psd

Tomorrow RIPE 58 starts in Amsterdam. These are the IPv6 hilights:

There will be  webcast available for those unable to attend

Dates: Tuesday, 5 May, 11:00-12:30

* Case Study of Native IPv6 to the User – Alexandre Cassen, Free.fr.
* XS4ALL Trials with Native IPv6 Over ADSL – Marco Hogewoning, XS4ALL
* IETF Update – Mark Townsley
* IPv6 Deployment Monitoring: A User-Centred Approach – Presenter TBC TNO

Dates: Tuesday, 5 May, 16:00-18:00

A. Administrative Matters

* Welcome
* Select a scribe
* Jabber Monitor
* Microphone Etiquette
* Approve Minutes from RIPE 57
* Finalise agenda

B. RIPE NCC IPv6 Update – Erik Romijn

* Diving a bit more into things outside of the RIPE NCC network itself, but also some of the measurements we have from our services.

C. Google IPv6 Update – Lorenzo Colitti
D. Report(s) About Actual v6 Traffic Volume as Compared to v4? – Input from the audience

* What’s real out there, not what’s on PowerPoint?

E. Global IPv6 Routing Table Status – Gert Doering
F. Discussion: Deaggration of /32 Prefixes – Input from the audience

* Recent discussion and input to Address Policy Working Group

G. Overview of ISOC’s Current Activity with Regard to IPv6 Deployment – Matthew Ford
H. Proposed EU IPv6 Survey – Speaker TBC , TNO
I. Developments/Initiatives Regarding IPv6 in the RIPE Region and Beyond – Input from the audience
Y. Input for the RIPE NCC Activity Plan – Input from the audience
Z. A.O.B.

Im very intresed in the Native ADSL part by XS4ALL. Lets hope they can tell us something nice!

Piratebay had extensive downtime today, from around 2:30 untill about 9:30

Some say that it had something to do with the whois information for the new IP addresses they put under the names of the lawyer currently involved with the trial in sweden.

brokep, also known as Peter S Kolmisoppi, one of the piratebay admins said the following on the piratebay IRC channel:

<@brokep> It was just a publicity stunt to make sure people start using IPv6

I must say i did giggle a little when he said it. Allthough i dont think its the real reason behind it. But still, just imagine what would happen if the piratebay went IPv6 only.

Alaa Al-Din Al-Radhi mailed me a couple months ago after a post on the Linkedin IPv6 group.  He had some good information for a seminar i was attending and we have mailed eachother a few times.

Alaa Al-Din Al-Radhi has more than 27 years experience in the IT industry, including Technical advisor to the Iraqi ministerial of Telecommunications, Engineering observer with ITU, United Nations, Information systems manager with CIPE USA, Engineering Manger with Capri Computers UAE. Owned IT solutions Business.

He is an enthused researcher, consultant engineer and PHD applicant at DePaul University. He is also assuming the current Global Internet activities.

At this moment Alaa is building the roadmap for an IPv6 Task force for his orginal home country Iraq.

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Did you ever wonder what the current status of IPv6 deployment is and which country is taking the lead?  A number of sites provide information about IPv6 deployment; each one uses a different way of measuring the usage.

Bgpmon have published an article about the global deployment of IPv6.

And the winner is…
As could be seen in the result overview, the country with the highest score is  the Vatican. If we look at the (from a networking perspective) bigger countries, with at least 10 ASNs, Uruguay in Latin America is the winner. There are currently 26 ASN’s originating an IPv4 prefix that is used in Uruguay. As compared to 9 ASN that have IPv6 prefixes, resulting in a score of 35%. When we look at both the relative number as well as the absolute number we see that countries such as Japan,  New Zealand, Czech Republic, and The Netherlands are the leaders.

global ipv6 deployment

For more information and the complete article check the Bgpmon website.

The company i work for (Tiscom Hosting) is one of the largest webhosters in the netherlands. Since last week we have been enabling IPv6 for our shared hosting webservers. This week we have been busy to make sure our other services like webmail, mail, mx-servers and DNS services are also running dualstack.

Below you can see how our IPv6 Traffic has increased since we made the service available for our customers:

As you can see traffic went up a lot. And we already see that its still increasing.

So.. when will YOUR website be IPv6 enabled?