Presentation given by Emil Aben in Amman, Jordan July, 2010 during IPv6 workshop organised by MENOG http://www.menog.net/

1. RIPE Network Coordination Centre
IPv6 ripeness:
rating the IPv6 readiness of Local
Internet Registries
Emile Aben
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2. RIPE Network Coordination Centre
About the RIPE NCC
• Since 1992 in Amsterdam
• Independent not-for-profit organisation
• 6500+ members in 75 countries
• One of five Regional Internet Registries (RIRs)
• Does not make policies
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3. RIPE Network Coordination Centre
About the RIPE NCC
• Service region includes Europe, Middle East and
parts of Asia
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4. RIPE Network Coordination Centre
Internet resource allocation
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5. RIPE Network Coordination Centre
Resource allocation
• Resources delegated to Members, aka. Local
Internet Registries (LIRs)
• LIRs are typically ISPs and/or organisations with
large networks
• 6500+ LIRs in RIPE region
• ASN,IPv4 and IPv6
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6. RIPE Network Coordination Centre
IPv6 ripeness
• You may have heard the free IPv4 pool is
running dangerously low:
- IANA Free Pool exhaustion predicted sometime
May/July 2011
• Rating IPv6 preparedness at LIRs
• Idea by my colleague Vesna Manojlovic
• Only looking at indicators that we can measure
at the RIPE NCC
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7. RIPE Network Coordination Centre
IPv6 ripeness rating
• An LIR can get a ‘star’ for
1) Having received IPv6 address space
2) Having it’s address space visible in RIS (~ globally
routed)
3) Having a route6 object in the RIPE Database (whois)
4) Having it’s IPv6 reverse DNS set up
• Having all of these doesn’t necessarily mean
you ‘do’ IPv6 …
• … but together they are indicative of IPv6
readiness at an LIR level
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8. RIPE Network Coordination Centre
IPv6 ripeness per country
• http://labs.ripe.net
• Only listing countries with
5+ LIRs
• Large variation between
countries
• Slovenia doing well
- 67% at least 1 star
- 25% 4 stars
• Overall
- 73% 0 stars
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9. RIPE Network Coordination Centre
IPv6 ripeness per country
• Only listing countries with
5+ LIRs
• Large variation between
countries
• Slovenia doing well
- 67% at least 1 star
- 25% 4 stars
• Overall
- 73% 0 stars
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10. RIPE Network Coordination Centre
IPv6 ripeness around Jordan
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11. RIPE Network Coordination Centre
IPv6 ripeness movie
https://labs.ripe.net/Members/emileaben/content-interesting-graph-ipv6-ripeness-movie
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12. RIPE Network Coordination Centre
IPv6 ripeness by size
• Large organisations seem to have IPv6 on their radars
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13. RIPE Network Coordination Centre
IPv6 ripeness by industry
• Academia/non-for-profit leading
• ISPs on average (is biggest part of LIRs)
• Banking/industrial lagging
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14. RIPE Network Coordination Centre
IPv6 ripeness by LIR age
• Older = more IPv6 ripe
- Had more time to act?
- More focus on business continuity?
- Correlation size/age causing this?
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15. RIPE Network Coordination Centre
4star LIRs
• Generally an indication of having your act
together with regards to IPv6
- Deserves recognition
• We want to have the list of 4star LIRs public
- Indication of IPv6 ripeness in our public listing of LIRs
• Also mark 4star LIRs in our upcoming LIR
locator tool
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16. RIPE Network Coordination Centre
5th star
• We asked the community feedback
• Feedback received:
- 5th star should be based on traffic:
- HTTP
- SMTP
- DNS
• Looking into fairness of these
- They shouldn’t force work to LIRs
• Your opinion?
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17. RIPE Network Coordination Centre
Questions?
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