Pre-S: Geoff: could APNIC Labs test for IPv6-only? TLDR: - https://stats.labs.apnic.net/ipv6/ for the full world map. - https://www.ripe.net/membership/mail/ripe-mailing-lists/ipv6-wg/ if an ISP needs help deploying IPv6...
On 17 Mar 2026, at 10:15, Gert Doering <gert@space.net> wrote:
Hi,
On Tue, Mar 17, 2026 at 10:13:04AM +0100, Niels Dettenbach wrote:
rolling out IPv6 only + DNS64/NAT64 is a fairly reasonable strategy - look at what India's mobile networks did (all of them, after Reliance demonstrated that "yes, it can be done, as soon as you stop find arguments against"). I just reminded to the reality out there (in real numbers) - not opinions or single cases.
"Reliance Mobilcom has 100% IPv6 only deployment, in one of the largest mobile networks of the world"
Is that not a real number?
The numbers in India are indeed super impressive: https://stats.labs.apnic.net/ipv6/IN ASN AS Name IPv6 Capable IPv6 Preferred Samples AS55836 RELIANCEJIO-IN Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited 96.54% 95.59% 51,659,603 AS45609 BHARTI-MOBILITY-AS-AP Bharti Airtel Ltd. AS for GPRS Service 90.49% 89.11% 23,972,363 AS24560 AIRTELBROADBAND-AS-AP Bharti Airtel Ltd., Telemedia Services 74.97% 74.32% 9,077,340 AS9829 BSNL-NIB National Internet Backbone 15.79% 15.54% 3,300,364 Especially combined with knowing that Reliance is IPv6-only for their network, while the above networks are not. Great work by them. Compared to say Germany: https://stats.labs.apnic.net/ipv6/DE ASN AS Name IPv6 Capable IPv6 Preferred Samples AS3320 DTAG Internet service provider operations 80.19% 79.52% 5,752,829 AS3209 VODANET International IP-Backbone of Vodafone 67.26% 66.61% 3,115,237 AS6805 TDDE-ASN1 84.38% 83.66% 1,330,160 AS8881 VERSATEL 83.29% 82.44% 1,004,997 AS9145 EWETEL 56.84% 56.17% 223,734 The sample size of India is 10x, that means that 10 times more customers (per ISP) are hitting the Ads that APNIC Labs makes for this.... that is a LOT (which makes sense with the population size of course) Now Russia and most of Africa though... not much IPv6 there... they got lot of work to do. I have noticed a lot of folks from the east having issues with IPv4 and having discussions about pricing though; but clearly not much IPv6 deployment happening. If any ISP needs help deploying IPv6... many people in the RIPE and other RIR communities have been trying to help people for much of more than30 years already... but if extra hints are needed, never hesitate to ask, that is what the RIPE **COMMUNITY** is for: to help eachother out. Do not hesitate to subscribe and ask questions on: https://www.ripe.net/membership/mail/ripe-mailing-lists/ipv6-wg/ Regards, Jeroen