The New Internet is Here.

Are You Ready?

John Curran

President and CEO, ARIN

IoT Evolution Expo

July 2017

Quick History of the Internet Protocol

• Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4)– Developed for the original Internet (ARPANET) in 1978

– 4 billion addresses

– Deployed globally & well entrenched

– Allocated based on documented need

– Depleted in 2015 (now traded on an open market as a scarce

resource)

• Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)– Design began in 1993 when IETF forecasts showed IPv4 depletion

between 2010 and 2017

– 340 undecillion addresses

– Completed, tested, and available since 1999

– Used and managed similar to IPv4, only with much larger allocations

per ISP

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Regional Internet Registries

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ARIN Region

• The ARIN region includes many Caribbean and North Atlantic

islands, Canada, the United States and outlying areas

• Total organizations served: 37,000+

• Organizations paying fees for services: 20,000+• Member organizations: 5,400+

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IPv4 Address Space in

ARIN Free Pool/8s

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So how’d we do? Are we building a bigger and better Internet?

The answer all depends on where you look...

• How many networks have an IPv6 block?

• How much traffic is using IPv6?

IPv6 Deployment Today

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5,446 ISP Members as of 31 January 2017

ISP Members with IPv4 and IPv6

IPv6 Adoption by ISP Size

(ARIN Region)

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%

100%

ISPs with IPv6 ISPs without IPv6

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IPv6 Traffic Growing

> 37% of US customers connected to Google

via IPv6 - up from last year & growing rapidly

Credit: Google

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IPv6 Traffic Growth (Google Worldwide)

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What is driving IPv6 Growth?

And what does this mean for Internet-of-Things (IoT) companies?

Mobile is driving IPv6 traffic

The mobile Internet is growing via IPv6, and that has huge implications for the IoT industry...

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New Internet users are being put on IPv6

• Your customer-facing website is slower than your competitors if it is not on IPv6

• Your IoT device management app is often using mobile wireless data and had better work properly over IPv6

• Your IoT device will find itself through increasing layers of address translation, unless its using IPv6 for communications

IoT depends on the Internet, and the Internet

depends on IPv6 to continue growing...

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Questions?

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