IPv6 Deployment Monitoring Survey 2009

Based on responses from the APNIC community

APNIC29, 4 March 2010

By Miwa Fujii,

Senior IPv6 Program Specialist, APNIC

Overview

• Background of IPv6 Deployment Monitoring Survey

• Data

• Findings and Analysis

• Future plan

First of all…

• Thank you so much for your participation in this survey during Sept 2009– Survey period = 15/09/2009 – 02/10/2009– Valid APNIC region responses = 429– From 37 economies in the APNIC region

What is this survey?

• RIPE NCC designed this survey in collaboration with TNO and GNKS Consult– Sponsored by European Commission (EC)

– Inspired by the work conducted by ARIN and CAIDA in 2008 in the ARIN region

• APNIC joined this survey– Keen to identify current IPv6 deployment

status through empirical data

• Survey period:– 15/09/2009 – 02/10/2009

Background of the survey

• Original intention of this survey– Inform EC what could be done to ensure a

smooth transition to IPv6• Help EC understand the scope of the problem• Identify the bottlenecks• Propose useful ideas to support the transition

• APNIC agrees about the above principles – APNIC will circulate the outcomes from

relevant organisations

Objectives of the survey

• To present the comprehensive view of present IPv6 penetration and projections of IPv6 deployment

• To share the empirical data with wider Internet multi stakeholders in the AP region – To help them to understand current IPv6

deployment status– To help them to clarify issues

• The first step to find constructive solutions

Data

Overview of responses

• 429 respondents from 37 economies in the AP region

• 76% of respondents have an APNIC account

• 74% of respondents works for profit organizations

Economies responded

n=429

Respondent categories

n=429

Size of your organisations

n=429

Size of customer base (ISPs only)

Size Number of respondents (n=218)

Percentage

Up to 1,000 61 28%

1,001 to 10,000 46 21%

100,001 to 100,000 55 25%

100,001 to 500,000 25 11%

500,001 to 1,000,000 9 4%

More than 1,000,000 22 10%

Usage of IPv6 connectivity (ISPs only)

• What percentage of your customer base using IPv6 connectivity?

Customer base (%) Number of respondents (n=210)

Percentage

0% 129 61%

0% - 0.5% 57 27%

0.5% - 1.0% 16 8%

1.0% - 2.0% 5 2%

More 3 1%

IPv6 Promotion (ISPs only)

n=214

IPv6 address allocations and assignments

Does your organization have, or consider having an IPv6 allocation and/or assignment? n=429

Does your organization have, or consider having an IPv6 allocation and/or assignment?

IPv6 address allocations and assignments (only ISPs)

n=192

No IPv6 yet (28% of 429):Why not?

n=118

No IPv6 yet (28% of 429):Biggest hurdles?

n=118

What do you expect to be the biggest hurdles for your organisation if you were todeploy IPv6?

Have IPv6 (72% of 429):

n=311

Have IPv6 (72% of 429):Biggest hurdles?

n=311

What are likely to be the biggest hurdles when deploying IPv6?

Have IPv6 (72% of 429):Problems in production?

n=311

What are the biggestproblems with IPv6 in production?

Finding 3

n=311n=118

Assumption vs. reality:Biggest hurdles when deploying IPv6

Have IPv6 (72%):Do you have IPv6 presence?

n=311

Have IPv6 (72%):What IPv6 setup do you use?

N=289

Have IPv6 (72%):IPv6 production services

n=234

Have IPv6 (72%):Amount of IPv6 traffic

n=201

Planning IPv6 deployment

Findings and analysis

Finding 1

• ISPs in the APNIC region:– Consider promoting IPv6 uptake to their

customers• Yes 52% + Maybe 35% = 87%

– Have or consider having an IPv6 allocation and/or assignment

• Yes 71%• No 29%

APNIC IPv6 Readiness Survey Conducted in Dec 2008

• Deployed or ready for immediate deployment?

• Formal plan for future deployment?

• Budgeted for future deployment?

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Analysis 1

• Majority respondents from ISPs in the APNIC region positively consider promoting IPv6 to their customers – Good news!

• 71% respondents from ISPs in the APNIC region have or are considering getting IPv6 addresses– Good news!– IPv6 Kickstart policy (implemented in Feb

2010) will help such momentum

Need IPv6 addresses?IPv6 Kickstart policy

Finding 2

• Why don’t 29% of the total respondents (429) consider having an IPv6 allocation/assignment?• Don’t see business need = 58%• Communication Service Providers doesn’t

support IPv6 = 42%• ISPs doesn’t support IPv6 = 19%

• 62% of the organistaions already have or are considering an IPv6 allocation and/or assignment because:• They want to be ahead of the game

Analysis 2

• IPv6 is a business continuity issue– Need to reframe your thinking on “don’t see

business need”– IPv6 is a reality– Don’t be left behind!

• To ISPs: if your customers think so, you need to provide more information to educate them

• Service providers, system integrators, and hosting centers– Customers can choose a service provider– Don’t be left behind!

Finding 3

n=311n=118

Assumption vs. realityWhat are likely to be the biggest hurdles when deploying IPv6?

Analysis 3

• Attention to gaps:– Deploying IPv6 will be costly?

• “Cost” is relative to organisations so we need to be careful to reach a simple conclusion

• However worth to conduct serious cost benefit analysis now

– You may find “An attempt is sometimes easier than expected”

– Lack of vendor support • Need to raise your voice to vendors now!

– Information security• Need to implement IPv6 in planed manner, not like a

last minute dirty job– “An attempt is sometimes more difficult than expected”

Finding 4

• What are the biggest problems with IPv6 in production?– Lack of user demand = 50%– Technical problems = 38%– No experience yet = 36%

Analysis 4

• Lack of user demand could be due to:– Lack of understanding about necessity to

adopt IPv6 by your customers• Enterprises’ IT cycle – it may take one to two

years to implement • They need to start planning now!• Educating your customer is the key

• Technical problems + No experience yet– “An attempt is sometimes more difficult

than expected”– Plan and test!

Finding 5

Your organisation’s IPv6 setup Nature of your organisation’s IPv6 production services

Analysis 5

• Obviously, dual-stack is the most adopted methods = 81%

• Native IPv6 = 49%– Good news!

• Tunneled IPv6 (excluding automatic tunneling) = 31%– Consideration points

• Capsulation overhead may have negative impact to IPv6 throughput

• IPv6 traffic may depend on reliability of IPv4 connection

Finding 6

• Amount of IPv6 traffic– IPv6 traffic is insignificant = 77%– IPv6 traffic is non-negligible but less than

IPv4 traffic = 17%– IPv6 traffic is same as IPv4 traffic = 3%– IPv6 traffic is greater than IPv4 traffic = 3%

Analysis 6

• IPv6 traffic is emerging – About 20% of respondents see some level

of IPv6 traffic– Encouraging news!

• Traffic comes from edges– Google turned on IPv6 support for YouTube– Sending a spike of IPv6 traffic

• Need to encourage content providers to adopt IPv6

Finally…

• 95% indicated their willingness to respond again in 2010– Sometime around June

• We would like to seek your cooperation to measure IPv6 implementation in this region!

• Thank you!

Thank you!

<miwa@apnic.net>