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Call for agenda items
by David Kessens 24 Apr '07

24 Apr '07

Hi, The next RIPE meeting is getting close. That means that we will have to get our agenda together as soon as possible. Our session is scheduled for: Thursday, May 10 17:00 - 18:00 in room Grande Room I plan on sending out the first draft agenda by the end of the week. To do this, I will need your help to volunteer a talk or discussion topic that is relevant for the deployment of ipv6 in the RIPE region. Any topic, no matter how short and/or if you are new to our working group is welcome as long as the topic is relevant for our working group. Thanks, David Kessens ---

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Accommodating IPv6 Address RRs for the Root of the Domain Name System
by JORDI PALET MARTINEZ 28 Mar '07

28 Mar '07

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IPv6 Deployment Panel at ICANN, Lisbon
by Leo Vegoda 27 Mar '07

27 Mar '07

Hi, There will be an IPv6 Deployment Panel discussion at the ICANN meeting in Lisbon on Sunday 25 March between 1pm and 3pm (UTC+1). The session will focus on IPv6 deployment in the root DNS and ISP environments as well as looking at the policy support needed for this. The agenda and webcast links can be found on the meeting web site at: http://www.icann.org/meetings/lisbon/ the presentations will be made available before the session begins. As well as webcasting the session, remote participation will be possible through the ICANN public participation site, which allows registered users to ask questions and comment in chatrooms and forums. Please feel free to submit questions to the panel in advance or during the session, or use the blog facility to write about it afterwards. The site can be found at: http://public.icann.org/ And it can be reached through IPv6 as well as IPv4 :-) Thanks, -- Leo Vegoda IANA Numbers Liaison

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IPv6 Deployment Panel at ICANN Meeting, Lisbon
by Axel Pawlik 26 Mar '07

26 Mar '07

[Apologies for duplicate e-mails.] Dear Colleagues, An IPv6 deployment panel discussion was held at the ICANN meeting in Lisbon on Sunday 25 March between 13:00 and 15:00 (UTC+1). The session focused on IPv6 deployment in the root DNS and ISP environments as well as the policy support needed for this. The panel consisted of Gert Doering from SpaceNet AG, who discussed the ISPs' view of IPv6 deployment, Joao Damas from Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) who discussed IPv6 deployment in the DNS and Alex Le Heux from the RIPE NCC who gave the Regional Internet Registry (RIR) perspective. The agenda, webcast and presentations can be found on the meeting website at: http://www.icann.org/meetings/lisbon/ Remote participation was possible through the ICANN public participation site, which allowed registered users to ask questions and comment in chatrooms and forums. The site can be found at: http://public.icann.org/ The site can be reached through IPv6 as well as IPv4. Regards, Axel Pawlik Managing Director RIPE NCC

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RE: [ipv6-wg] 2006 IPv4 Address Use Report
by Tanya Hinman 02 Jan '07

02 Jan '07

Hey there Ray! Are these actually statistics or parameters, and are either available at this time for IPv6 and IPv4? I would be interested in seeing them, especially would like to update my view of how IPv6 is being utilized at this time. Thanks, Tanya > From: plzak(a)arin.net> To: iljitsch(a)muada.com; emmiesan(a)msn.com> CC: ipv6-wg(a)ripe.net> Subject: RE: [ipv6-wg] 2006 IPv4 Address Use Report> Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 08:08:33 -0500> > I would think that an interesting statistic to look at would be the> consumption rates by region and by the top 10 economy/country consumers in> both IPv4 and IPv6. I would also look at the percentage of the allocated> IPv6 resources by region and by the top 10 economy/country consumers.> > Ray > > > -----Original Message-----> > From: ipv6-wg-admin(a)ripe.net [mailto:ipv6-wg-admin@ripe.net] On Behalf Of> > Iljitsch van Beijnum> > Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2007 5:33 AM> > To: Tanya Hinman> > Cc: ipv6-wg(a)ripe.net> > Subject: Re: [ipv6-wg] 2006 IPv4 Address Use Report> > > > On 1-jan-2007, at 23:53, Tanya Hinman wrote:> > > > > Is the decrease in the percentage of used IPv4 space in the United> > > States of America due to other countries increasing their usage and/> > > or the return of unused IPv4 space in the United States of America?> > > Just looking at upcoming usage statistics globally.> > > > A year ago, the US held 1324.93 million addresses out of a total of> > 2238.04 million = 59.2% (apparently I rounded off incorrectly with my> > 60% figure).> > > > Yesterday's total is 2407.11 so for the US to maintain its 59.2% it> > would have to hold 1425 million addresses, which is an increase of> > exactly 100 million addresses. But the US didn't get 100 million> > addresses last year, but "only" 41.66 million for a total of 1366.53> > (56.8%).> > > > So the US keeps growing, and still uses up a quarter of the new> > addresses given out in 2006, but the rest of the world grows faster> > so the US lead is diminishing.> _________________________________________________________________ Get into the holiday spirit, chat with Santa on Messenger. http://imagine-windowslive.com/minisites/santabot/default.aspx?locale=en-us

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RE: [ipv6-wg] 2006 IPv4 Address Use Report
by Tanya Hinman 02 Jan '07

02 Jan '07

Hello all, I have been out of the IP field for a few years so forgive me if my question is about old news, but here it is: Is the decrease in the percentage of used IPv4 space in the United States of America due to other countries increasing their usage and/or the return of unused IPv4 space in the United States of America? Just looking at upcoming usage statistics globally. Thanks, Tanya Hinman, RN +1 919 272 1835 > To: ipv6-wg(a)ripe.net; address-policy-wg(a)ripe.net> From: iljitsch(a)muada.com> Subject: [ipv6-wg] 2006 IPv4 Address Use Report> Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2007 17:27:08 +0100> > 2006 was another busy year for the five Regional Internet Registries: > together, they gave out 161.48 million IPv4 addresses, just shy of > the 165.45 million given out in 2005 as measured on january first 2006.> > The current (jan 1st, 2007) figure for 2005 is 175.52 million > addresses. Together with adjustments for earlier years, this brings > the total addresses available to almost exactly 1.3 billion, down > from 1468.61 million a year ago. This is out of 3706.65 million > usable IPv4 addresses, so 2407.11 million addresses are currently > given out to either end-users or Internet Service Providers.> > Breakdown by Regional Internet Registry over the past few years as > seen on 2007-01-01:> > 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006> > AfriNIC 0.56 0.39 0.26 0.22 0.51 1.03 2.72> APNIC 20.94 28.83 27.03 33.05 42.89 53.86 51.78> ARIN 30.83 28.55 21.08 22.32 34.26 47.57 38.94> LACNIC 0.88 1.61 0.65 2.62 3.77 10.97 11.50> RIPE NCC 24.79 25.36 19.84 29.61 47.49 62.09 56.53> > Total 78.00 84.73 68.87 87.82 128.92 175.52 161.48> > Compare this to the totals as seen on 2006-01-01:> > Total 78.35 88.95 68.93 87.77 128.45 165.45> > (See last year's report for more details at http://www.bgpexpert.com/ > addrspace2005.php )> > The main reason for the discrepancy is that the RIRs publish on their > respective FTP servers lists of which address block was given out > when. When a block of address space is given back by the holder, it's > removed from the list. This is the reason why the numbers for earlier > years keep going down. The 10 million extra addresses in 2005 and 4 > million in 2001 are the responsibility of ARIN, which went from 36.30 > million addresses for 2005 in their 2006-01-01 records to 47.56 in > their 2007-01-01 records. The reason for the retroactive growth is > unknown.> > AfriNIC gives out address space in Africa, APNIC in the Asia-Pacific > region, ARIN in North America, LACNIC in Latin American and the > Caribbean and the RIPE NCC in Europe, the former Soviet Union and the > Middle East.> > The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA, part of ICANN) keeps > an overview of the IPv4 address space at http://www.iana.org/ > assignments/ipv4-address-space. The list consists of 256 blocks of > 16.78 million addresses. Breakdown:> > Delegated to Blocks +/- 2006 Addresses (millions)> > AfriNIC 1 16.78> APNIC 19 +3 318.77> ARIN 27 +4 452.98> LACNIC 4 67.11> RIPE NCC 22 +3 369.10> Various 50 838.86> End-user 43 721.42> Available 55 -10 922.74> > Of the 2063.60 million addresses delegated to the five Regional > Internet Registries, 1685.69 million have been delegated to end-users > or ISPs by the RIRs, and 377.91 million are still available, which is > almost identical to last year's 378.09 number. Along with the 922.74 > million addresses still available in the IANA global pool this makes > the total number of available addresses 1300.65 million, down 167.96 > million from a year earlier.> > The size of address blocks given has been increasing steadily. The > table below shows the number of requests for a certain range of block > sizes (equal or higher than the first, lower than the second value).> > (2005 and earlier values from 2006-01-01 data, 2006 values from > 2007-01-01 data.)> > 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006> > < 1000 326 474 547 745 1022 1309 1526> 1000 - 8000 652 1176 897 1009 1516 1891 2338> 8000 - 64k 1440 868 822 1014 1100 1039 1133> 64k - 500k 354 262 163 215 404 309 409> 500k - 2M 19 39 29 46 61 60 56> > 2M 3 5 5 6 7 18 13> > The number of blocks in the two smallest categories have increased > rapidly, but not as fast as the number of blocks in the largest > category, in relative numbers at least. However, the increase in > large blocks has a very dramatic effect while the small blocks are > insignificant, when looking at the millions of addresses involved:> > 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006> > < 1000 0.10 0.16 0.18 0.25 0.35 0.44 0.52> 1000 - 8000 2.42 4.47 3.23 3.45 4.49 5.07 6.10> 8000 - 64k 18.79 12.81 11.35 14.00 15.99 15.46 17.17> 64k - 500k 35.98 32.19 20.28 25.51 42.01 34.23 49.64> 500k - 2M 12.68 24.64 21.30 31.98 44.63 41.63 46.64> > 2M 8.39 14.68 12.58 12.58 20.97 68.62 41.42> > The increase in the 2M+ blocks was solely responsible for the high > number of addresses given out in 2005. In 2006, there was growth in > all categories except the 2M+ one (even the 500k - 2M category > increased in number of addresses if not in number of blocks). When > the 2M+ blocks are taken out of the equation, 2005 had a total of > 96.83 million addresses (2006-01-01) and 2006 119.06 million given out.> > Another way to look at the same data:> > Year Blocks Addresses (M) Average block size> > 2000 2794 78.35 28043> 2001 2824 88.95 31497> 2002 2463 68.93 27985> 2003 3035 87.77 28921> 2004 4110 128.45 31252> 2005 4626 165.45 35765> 2006 5475 161.48 29494> > The 2407.11 million addresses currently in use aren't very evenly > distributed over the countries in the world. The current top 15 is:> > Country Addresses 2007-01-01 Addr 2006-01-01> > US 1366.53 M 1324.93 M United States> JP 151.27 M 143.00 M Japan> EU 115.83 M 113.87 M Multi-country in > Europe> CN 98.02 M 74.39 M China> GB 93.91 M 73.81 M United Kingdom> CA 71.32 M 67.43 M Canada> DE 61.59 M 51.13 M Germany> FR 58.23 M 45.16 M France> KR 51.13 M 41.91 M Korea> AU 30.64 M 26.87 M Australia> BR 19.27 M 17.17 M Brazil> IT 19.14 M 18.39 M Italy> ES 18.69 M 16.29 M Spain> TW 18.16 M 16.28 M Taiwan> NL 18.08 M 16.40 M Netherlands> > The US holds 57% (down from 60% a year ago) of the IPv4 address space > in use. The other countries in the list together hold another 34% (up > from 32%). The rest of the world has 9% (up from 8%).> > A copy of this information and a tool to perform queries on up to > date data is available at http://www.bgpexpert.com/addrspace2006.php> _________________________________________________________________ Fixing up the home? 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2006 IPv4 Address Use Report
by Iljitsch van Beijnum 01 Jan '07

01 Jan '07

2006 was another busy year for the five Regional Internet Registries: together, they gave out 161.48 million IPv4 addresses, just shy of the 165.45 million given out in 2005 as measured on january first 2006. The current (jan 1st, 2007) figure for 2005 is 175.52 million addresses. Together with adjustments for earlier years, this brings the total addresses available to almost exactly 1.3 billion, down from 1468.61 million a year ago. This is out of 3706.65 million usable IPv4 addresses, so 2407.11 million addresses are currently given out to either end-users or Internet Service Providers. Breakdown by Regional Internet Registry over the past few years as seen on 2007-01-01: 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 AfriNIC 0.56 0.39 0.26 0.22 0.51 1.03 2.72 APNIC 20.94 28.83 27.03 33.05 42.89 53.86 51.78 ARIN 30.83 28.55 21.08 22.32 34.26 47.57 38.94 LACNIC 0.88 1.61 0.65 2.62 3.77 10.97 11.50 RIPE NCC 24.79 25.36 19.84 29.61 47.49 62.09 56.53 Total 78.00 84.73 68.87 87.82 128.92 175.52 161.48 Compare this to the totals as seen on 2006-01-01: Total 78.35 88.95 68.93 87.77 128.45 165.45 (See last year's report for more details at http://www.bgpexpert.com/ addrspace2005.php ) The main reason for the discrepancy is that the RIRs publish on their respective FTP servers lists of which address block was given out when. When a block of address space is given back by the holder, it's removed from the list. This is the reason why the numbers for earlier years keep going down. The 10 million extra addresses in 2005 and 4 million in 2001 are the responsibility of ARIN, which went from 36.30 million addresses for 2005 in their 2006-01-01 records to 47.56 in their 2007-01-01 records. The reason for the retroactive growth is unknown. AfriNIC gives out address space in Africa, APNIC in the Asia-Pacific region, ARIN in North America, LACNIC in Latin American and the Caribbean and the RIPE NCC in Europe, the former Soviet Union and the Middle East. The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA, part of ICANN) keeps an overview of the IPv4 address space at http://www.iana.org/ assignments/ipv4-address-space. The list consists of 256 blocks of 16.78 million addresses. Breakdown: Delegated to Blocks +/- 2006 Addresses (millions) AfriNIC 1 16.78 APNIC 19 +3 318.77 ARIN 27 +4 452.98 LACNIC 4 67.11 RIPE NCC 22 +3 369.10 Various 50 838.86 End-user 43 721.42 Available 55 -10 922.74 Of the 2063.60 million addresses delegated to the five Regional Internet Registries, 1685.69 million have been delegated to end-users or ISPs by the RIRs, and 377.91 million are still available, which is almost identical to last year's 378.09 number. Along with the 922.74 million addresses still available in the IANA global pool this makes the total number of available addresses 1300.65 million, down 167.96 million from a year earlier. The size of address blocks given has been increasing steadily. The table below shows the number of requests for a certain range of block sizes (equal or higher than the first, lower than the second value). (2005 and earlier values from 2006-01-01 data, 2006 values from 2007-01-01 data.) 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 < 1000 326 474 547 745 1022 1309 1526 1000 - 8000 652 1176 897 1009 1516 1891 2338 8000 - 64k 1440 868 822 1014 1100 1039 1133 64k - 500k 354 262 163 215 404 309 409 500k - 2M 19 39 29 46 61 60 56 > 2M 3 5 5 6 7 18 13 The number of blocks in the two smallest categories have increased rapidly, but not as fast as the number of blocks in the largest category, in relative numbers at least. However, the increase in large blocks has a very dramatic effect while the small blocks are insignificant, when looking at the millions of addresses involved: 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 < 1000 0.10 0.16 0.18 0.25 0.35 0.44 0.52 1000 - 8000 2.42 4.47 3.23 3.45 4.49 5.07 6.10 8000 - 64k 18.79 12.81 11.35 14.00 15.99 15.46 17.17 64k - 500k 35.98 32.19 20.28 25.51 42.01 34.23 49.64 500k - 2M 12.68 24.64 21.30 31.98 44.63 41.63 46.64 > 2M 8.39 14.68 12.58 12.58 20.97 68.62 41.42 The increase in the 2M+ blocks was solely responsible for the high number of addresses given out in 2005. In 2006, there was growth in all categories except the 2M+ one (even the 500k - 2M category increased in number of addresses if not in number of blocks). When the 2M+ blocks are taken out of the equation, 2005 had a total of 96.83 million addresses (2006-01-01) and 2006 119.06 million given out. Another way to look at the same data: Year Blocks Addresses (M) Average block size 2000 2794 78.35 28043 2001 2824 88.95 31497 2002 2463 68.93 27985 2003 3035 87.77 28921 2004 4110 128.45 31252 2005 4626 165.45 35765 2006 5475 161.48 29494 The 2407.11 million addresses currently in use aren't very evenly distributed over the countries in the world. The current top 15 is: Country Addresses 2007-01-01 Addr 2006-01-01 US 1366.53 M 1324.93 M United States JP 151.27 M 143.00 M Japan EU 115.83 M 113.87 M Multi-country in Europe CN 98.02 M 74.39 M China GB 93.91 M 73.81 M United Kingdom CA 71.32 M 67.43 M Canada DE 61.59 M 51.13 M Germany FR 58.23 M 45.16 M France KR 51.13 M 41.91 M Korea AU 30.64 M 26.87 M Australia BR 19.27 M 17.17 M Brazil IT 19.14 M 18.39 M Italy ES 18.69 M 16.29 M Spain TW 18.16 M 16.28 M Taiwan NL 18.08 M 16.40 M Netherlands The US holds 57% (down from 60% a year ago) of the IPv4 address space in use. The other countries in the list together hold another 34% (up from 32%). The rest of the world has 9% (up from 8%). A copy of this information and a tool to perform queries on up to date data is available at http://www.bgpexpert.com/addrspace2006.php

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New IPv6 block allocated to RIPE NCC
by leo vegoda 18 Oct '06

18 Oct '06

[Apologies for duplicate mails] Dear Colleagues, The RIPE NCC received the IPv6 address range 2a00::/12 from the IANA in October 2006. This allocation expands two previous allocations. We will begin allocating from this new space in the near future. The minimum allocation size for this /12 has been set at /32. You may wish to adjust any filters you have in place accordingly. More information on the IP space administered by the RIPE NCC can be found on our web site at: https://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-ncc-managed-address-space.html Regards, -- leo vegoda Registration Services Manager RIPE NCC

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2001:502:d399::1
by Max Tulyev 10 Oct '06

10 Oct '06

Hi! Can anybody reach 2001:502:d399::1? It is the DNS server listed in the .org and some other TLDs. Now I'm getting ICMP6 host unreachable and DNS slows down slightly, -- WBR, Max Tulyev (MT6561-RIPE, 2:463/253@FIDO)

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Comercial IPv6 availability in the Nordics
by Hans Petter Holen 04 Oct '06

04 Oct '06

This spring I renegotiated our corporate VPN and Internet agreements. In the request for interest/proposals I among other things asked for IPv6 availability. Since I the company I work for, Visma, has offices in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland there was not that many ISPs to ask. >From the 4 that was able to offer service in all the Nordic countries only one of them answered Yes - but added "not for production - we do not offer any SLA on this service yet." -hph (and yes - I did choose the provider that said they could offer IPv6 - but for other reasons like price and SLA conditions)

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