[60122] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: North America not interested in IP V6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael.Dillon@radianz.com)
Fri Aug 1 09:35:31 2003
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Michael.Dillon@radianz.com
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2003 14:32:39 +0100
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
>I have been plotting the IPv6 ASNs for some time. These should be the
>ISPs running IPv6. See:
>http://www.nlnetlabs.nl/ipv6/measurements/index.html
It would be interesting to see an analysis that combines this data with
Geoff Huston's IPv4 analysis
http://www.potaroo.net/ispcolumn/2003-07-v4-address-lifetime/ale.html
and see if we can predict the point at which the number of IPv6 addresses
deployed begins to exceed the number of IPv4 addresses deployed? I realize
that the IPv6 analysis is routes only, but one should be able to
determine how many addresses are available in each ASN.
One could reasonably assume that at the point where the Internet shifts to
IPv6 as the core protocol, more than half of the interfaces with an IPv4
address will also have an IPv6 address. So to get to that point, one could
make some assumptions about the allocation of IPv6 /48's based on the
observed trends in IPv4 /32's.
I'm not sure where one would take this, but I think a lot of people would
be interested in seeing some type of well-presented analysis of these
questions.
--Michael Dillon
