The theme of this presentation is on how communities drive the global IPv6 deployment. By writing IPv6 best practices, bringing people together and sharing knowledge and experience. The RIPE community is a leading example of this.

1. Hans Petter Holen
RIPE Chair
Community Driven IPv6 Success Stories
High Level Strategies to
Successful IPv6 Deployments

2. • Formed in 1989
• Open to everyone
• Creates policies
based on consensus
• RIPE Working
Groups
• Formed in 1992
• Secretariat for the RIPE
community
• RIR for Europe, the Middle
East and parts of Central
Asia
• 12,000 members and
growing
• Not-for-profit

3. Hans Petter Holen, 2015-05-07
IPv4 Policy in the RIPE Region
• We still have IPv4 addresses left - more than a /8
in the available pool
- Every member can get 1,024 addresses (/22)
- Block reserved for Internet Exchange Points
• You can also transfer IPv4 addresses between
RIPE NCC members
• Recently an inter-RIR transfer policy was
accepted, working on implementation
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IPv4 Transfers-RIPE Region
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IPv4 Address Market in KSA
• In the last two years, RIPE NCC transferred a
total of almost 2 million IPv4 addresses to
members in KSA
• Most address space comes from Romanian
members
• Around $10 per address; around $20 million in
total
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Number of Addresses Transferred to KSA
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150000
300000
450000
600000 2014-01
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Number of Prefixes Transferred to KSA
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IPv4 Address Market in KSA
• After the transfers there are 8,231,168 IPv4
addresses
• 30 million residents
• 0.27 IPv4 address per capita
• 20 million internet users
• 0.41 IPv4 address per internet user
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IPv6 Policy in the Region
• RIPE Document ripe-641
• If you are a RIPE NCC member:
– Minimum allocation size is a /32
– Up to a /29 without additional justification
• If you are not a RIPE NCC member:
– Find a sponsoring LIR (member)
– Minimum size is a /48
– Only for own infrastructure
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10. Hans Petter Holen, 2015-05-07
Recent IPv6 Policy Changes
• Members:
– Can now transfer IPv6 allocations within the RIPE NCC
service region
– Do not need to have an IPv6 allocation in order to
request their last /22 IPv4 allocation
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IPv6 Addresses in KSA
• There are 83 RIPE NCC members in KSA
• Together they have:
– IPv6 in KSA: 129,433,600/ 48s
– IPv6 in KSA: 420,644 IPv6/ Capita
• Making the Internet of Things and the future of
the Internet scalable and operable
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Long-term Evolution (4G)
• LTE has an all-IP flat architecture
– Makes it ideal for IoT applications
• IPv6 support is integrated in the LTE design
– It is difficult to do LTE without IPv6
• IPv6 provides a long-term, scalable solution with
fewer operational and maintenance issues than
IPv4 networks deployed in NAT (Network
Address Translator) environments
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Law enforcement & Carrier Grade NAT
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Internet of Things
• IoT is a conglomeration of devices that have
means of interconnecting, collecting and/or
processing raw data
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Internet of Things
• The current IoT industry is cluttered with
proprietary solutions
• We have to avoid creating silos that make
interoperability impossible
• The only way to build a scalable and
interoperable future with IoT is IPv6
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The Internet of Things is Here
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The Possibilities are Endless….With IPv6
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Deploying IPv6 to End Users
• Belgium has over 30% end users on IPv6
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Their Success Story
• Cooperation in the Belgian IPv6 Council
• Bringing the two cable operators and the largest
ADSL provider in Belgium together
– Sharing operational issues
– Making a little competition: who would be the first to
launch IPv6?
– And celebrating success together!
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Launching IPv6
• Both operators decided to connect their
customers via dual stack
• Starting with a friendly customer trial
– Not to overload their helpdesk
– If their helpdesk could handle the amount of calls, they
would expand the customer base gradually
• The helpdesk did not receive extra calls about
IPv6 so they added larger volumes
• Resulting in 3.3 million happy IPv6 end users
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Belgian IPv6 Statistics
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source: https://www.vyncke.org/ipv6status/compare.php?metric=p&countries=be
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3
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1. Belnet & EDPnet
2. VOO
3. Proximus
4. Telenet

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Norway - commercial IPv6 up to 10%
• Two parallell tracks:
– Government and Industry
• Cable provider get.no first to launch a opt-in trial
and some months later dual-stack as default
• Telenor - Incumbent - made IPv6 part of their
network upgrade project.
• Altibox - fibre provider - opt in IPv6
• Major newspaper vg.no
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Launch cycle in Norway
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Telenor
Altibox
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https://www.vyncke.org/ipv6status/compare.php?metric=p&countries=no

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IPv6 traffic sources
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IPv6 preference at VG (Content)
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SE: Tracking local governments on v6
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SE: Tracking local governments on DNSSEC
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Other Countries
• In Germany, both DTAG and Deutsche Kabel
provide new customers with dual stack
– 19.88% of German population uses IPv6
• MEO, a subsidiary of Portugal Telecom, shows
about 20% IPv6 coverage
• 17% of Internet users in Peru are IPv6 capable
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Hosting on IPv6
• It is very hard to obtain IPv6 measurements on
hosting providers
– Even when they offer IPv6, it usually requires customer
intervention, such as DNS entries, to use it
• Several large providers offer IPv6 by default
– Hetzner (Germany), Softlayer (Global)
– Akamai can provide IPv6 on demand
• Services like Cloudflare can enable you on IPv6
– Using IPv6-IPv4 translation in their systems
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ripe-554
• “Requirements for IPv6 in ICT Equipment”
– Best current practices describing what to ask for when
requesting IPv6 support
– Useful for tenders and RFPs
– Adopted by various governments (Germany, Sweden)
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https://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-554

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ripe-631
• “Troubleshooting for ISP Helpdesks”
– Most ISP connectivity problems are not IPv6-related
– Helpdesks can get confused - IPv6 is new for them
– A generic troubleshooting guide can help
– Based on the open source testipv6.com tool
– Customisable
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https://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-631

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Participate
• RIPE can not exist without you
– Share knowledge and experience
– Finding solutions together
– Changing policy where needed
• Subscribe and participate on mailing lists
– https://www.ripe.net/participate/ripe
• Attend our meetings
– RIPE Meetings
– MENOG Meetings
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What is your success story?
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35. Questions?