Network Utility Force has released a cool infographic showing the state of IPv6 deployment worldwide.
2014 preview and 2013 wrapup
The ARIN region continues to move steadily toward IPv4 exhaustion with the total amount of IPv4 address resources available in the free pool being only 1.4 /8 equivalents as of February 3rd, 2014. It seems very likely that the region will exhaust its free pool of IPv4 numbers by mid-2014.
With the coming exhaustion, a number of community members have submitted policy proposals dealing with a number of exhaustion issues. ARIN has recently published these new draft policies and they are now open for discussion.
The RIPE region continues to move toward removing “need” (RIPE policy 2013-3) as a requirement for an IPv4 address assignment or allocation. The working-group chairs recently forwarded the policy to the RIPE NCC for implementation.
In IPv6 news, Comcast’s continues their aggressive deployment of IPv6 and reported in late 2013 that 25% of their Internet customers are now provisioned with dual stack and plans to complete their IPv6 deployment in 2014. Comcast also noted that they had reached the 75% deployment throughout their broadband network. Additional commentary on other cable MSOs can be found here.
At the end of the year, the New York Times also published an intriguing interview with Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn about the future of the Internet entitled, Viewing Where the Internet Goes.
2014 ARIN Advisory Council
I’m pleased to announce that I have been appointed to serve a one year term on the ARIN Advisory Council as the result of a recent resignation. My term will begin in January. I look forward to serving the Internet community in this more formal role. Thanks to those of you who voted for me in the previous ARIN election to put me in this position.
Thank you, Andrew Dul
IPv6 Deployment in the UK
I was pointed to this report from OfCom, the UK communications regulator, through this commentary.
The report is dated 2012 and has some interesting statistics comparing the deployment of IPv6 in various countries.
I found the following quote (emphasis mine) from the report interesting as I read through.
The report finds that by any measure, the UK lags behind its peers in IPv6 deployment. Whether in comparison with; economies of a similar size, G20 and EU member states, or with Asian economies, the UK is behind in IPv6 adoption. IPv4 address exhaustion and a failure to transition to IPv6 has a significant impact on innovation as it is the essential building block for any technology that connects to the Internet. Failure to keep up with competitor economies will have an impact on the UK’s consumer access to broadband, on eGovernment, […]
The report includes a brief discussion of the IPv4 exhaustion & transfer market, IPv6 deployment experiences, and deployment costs.
IPv6 Deployment Survey
The NRO has posted a new survey of IPv6 Deployments worldwide.
A few highlights that I noted while reading through the survey report.
- The survey includes responses from 1515 respondents from 131 countries
- 61% of respondents still indicate issues with vendor support
- Cost and business case as a factor to not deploy IPv6 continues to drop
- IPv4 run-out appears to be a driver to deploy IPv6 according to some respondents
- Biggest issues to IPv6 deployment continue to be user demand & technical problems
- The number of respondents using or planning to use CGN (Carrier grade NAT) is increasing from 15% in 2012 to 18% in 2013