APNIC staff presented an update on IPv6 deployment in Thailand at a Member Gathering held after ThaiNOG 2018 in Bangkok, Thailand.

1. 1
APNIC Member Gathering
21 May 2018, Bangkok
Paul Wilson - Director General
Anna Mulingbayan - Senior Internet Resource Analyst
Tashi Phuntsho - Senior Network Analyst
Jamie Gillespie - Internet Security Specialist

2. Topics of interest
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15 15
11
9
Global IP address
allocation
IPv4 address
transfers
IPv6 deployment
case studies
RPKI and routing
security

3. Available IPv4 /8s in each RIR
3
Dec 2017 NRO

4. IPv4 delegations
4
As at 28 Feb
0
500
1000
1500
2000
2500
3000
3500
4000
2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
East Asia
Oceania
South East Asia
South Asia

5. IPv4 delegations in Thailand
5
0
1000
2000
3000
4000
5000
6000
7000
8000
Number of /24's
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
Number of delegations vs

6. IPv6 delegations in Thailand
6
0
5
10
15
20
25
Number of delegations
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
Number of /32'svs

7. AS delegations in Thailand
7
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
2Byte-ASN 4Byte-ASN

8. IPv4 transfers in Thailand
8
https://www.apnic.net/manage-ip/manage-resources/transfer-resources/transfer-logs/

9. APNIC Members
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Total of 170
Members

10. Who are these Members?
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11. Membership referral
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• You lodge the application on
their behalf via MyAPNIC
• An APNIC Member account will
be created for your customer
and they will be the custodian
of the resources
• You continue to manage their
address space and can be the
authorized APNIC contact for
their account
• You can remain your
customers' billing contact
Since 2014, 57 Members have referred
over 120 of their customers, including
a Thai ISP who referred 18 customers,
which included a data centre, a game
developer, and content companies

12. 12
IPv6 - where are we now?

13. Global IPv6 end-user readiness
IPv6 capable = 17.34% (May 2018)
51.57% increase in the last 12 months
https://stats.labs.apnic.net/ipv6/

14. IPv6 table – World
https://stats.labs.apnic.net/ipv6/

15. IPv6 table – Asia
https://stats.labs.apnic.net/ipv6/

16. IPv6 table – Thailand
https://stats.labs.apnic.net/ipv6/

17. IPv6 interconnect
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18. IPv6 performance
Enough data collected to analyze IPv6 performance
⁃ APNIC Labs
• Is IPv6 as robust as IPv4?
⁃ Do all TCP connection attempts succeed?
 Connection failure = no ACK for an SYN
• IPv4 connection failure sits at 0.2%
• IPv6 connection failure sits at 1.6% (8 times higher!)
 PMTUD (ICMPv6 filters)?

19. IPv6 performance
• Is IPv6 as fast as IPv4? (IPv6 unicast)
⁃ Comparison of RTT (not implicit RTT)
 Time since SYN till ACK
 Factors out any congestion issues
• IPv6 is faster about half of the time
 45ms faster (36-90ms)
 NAT?
 IPv4 and IPv6 using different paths (different peering policies for IPv4 and
IPv6)?
• TechArk measured IPv6 performance for HTTP traffic
⁃ IPv6 performance better when measuring nearer targets!
https://blog.apnic.net/2017/09/29/network-operator-perspective-ipv6-performance/

20. Routing path and performance
IPv4 RTT – 325ms
IPv6 RTT – 213ms
https://labs.apnic.net/?p=850

21. 21
IPv6 deployment

22. AIS deployment
“The choice for us was clear. The amount of available
v4 is decreasing and we wanted to reduce
CGN NAT use. And from a content point of view
many Internet applications - IoT, YouTube, Google -
already support v6".
https://blog.apnic.net/2016/06/20/ipv6-fixed-broadband-thai-success-story/

23. Deployment planning
• Get your IPv6 address - very easy 
• Do you have in-house skills?
⁃ Training, conferences
⁃ Talk to the community - many are willing to help!!
• Address planning - not difficult 

24. Deployment planning
• Assess your network
⁃ Do the existing network nodes support IPv6?
 What requires updating (fw/sw)?
 What needs upgrading/replacing (hw)?
⁃ Talk to your vendor!
• Start from the backbone - not so complicated 
• Deploy for enterprise customers - not difficult 

25. Deployment planning
• Deploy in access Network
⁃ Both financial and technical assessment required!!
 Vendors and IPv6 consultants will tell you otherwise 
⁃ Mobile: IPv6 PDP license 
 Either IPv6-only or dual-stack (IPv4v6)
⁃ Wired broadband:
 MSANs, DSLAMS, OLT/ONT/ONU should carry IPv6 ether-type (do not assume)
 CPEs, wireless routers, APs: https://getipv6.info/display/IPv6/Broadband+CPE

26. www.apnic.net/ipv6

27. APNIC Services
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Community
Development
Training and
Technical Assistance
Community
development
APNIC Academy
Member
consultations and
visits

28. Coming Soon
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29. Save the date - APNIC 48
Chiang Mai, Thailand
5-12 September 2019
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30. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/apnic-th-20180521
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31. Stay in Touch!
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