“IPv6 activities and incentives in European
countries – results from TRIS survey”
Natalija Gelvanovska
Head of Access and Networks Section
Communications Regulatory Authority of the Republic of Lithuania (RRT)
The view expressed in this presentation is a personal view of the author and do not necessarily represent the view of RRT
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About the Survey
• At the moment there is no benchmarking methodology for IPv6
deployment at the international level:
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Outlines for Measuring IPv6 deployment (set of parameters) were drafted by OECD in May, 2009
• Objective of TRIS survey: to create a brief overview of IPv6 related
activities in TRIS countries:
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Do not pretend being a comprehensive study. There might be more IPv6 facilities existing, that
author may not be aware off;
Exclude IPv6 activities in academic networks;
19 countries were investigated in terms of IPv6 related activities.
• Following areas were investigated:
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public incentives and market activities related to IPv6 deployment;
regulator’s role and incentives encouraging IPv6 deployment.
• Following information was summarized:
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Contributions of TRIS members;
Contributions to ITU TSB Circular 30 concerning a questionnaire on IPv6 following WTSA-08
Resolution 64 (Questionnaire IPv6 address allocation and encouraging the deployment of IPv6);
information form National IPv6 Task Force pages.
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Interviewed countries – TRIS countries
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Nr.
Country
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Austria
2
Belgium
3
Bulgaria
4
Denmark
5
Finland
6
France
7
Germany
8
Greece
9
Ireland
10
Latvia
11
Lithuania
12
Malta
13
Norway
14
Portugal
15
Romania
16
Spain
17
Sweden
18
Switzerland
19
UK
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2007-2008 in IPv4 / IPv6 address adoption
100%
90%
80%
70%
60%
50%
40%
30%
20%
10%
0%
Source: NRO
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National IPv6 Task Forces
Source: TRIS Survey; http://www.eu.ipv6tf.org/in/i-enlaces.php
Nr.
Country
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Austria (pending)
2
Belgium
3
Bulgaria
4
Denmark
5
Finland
6
France
7
Germany (pending)
8
Greece
9
Ireland
10
Latvia
11
Lithuania
12
Malta
13
Norway
14
Portugal
15
Romania
16
Spain
17
Sweden
18
Switzerland
19
UK
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Less active countries
• Lithuania, Latvia, Romania, Bulgaria, Norway do not have National
Task Forces established;
• Situation in Lithuania, Latvia, Romania and Denmark might be
described as following:
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nobody is promoting/encouraging IPv6 deployment or at least there is nothing organized.
http://www.ipv6-taskforce.dk
• However in Denmark: public procurement strategy as a rule calls for IPv6
enabled solutions; National Strategy and Action plan are being drafted.
• Denmark (in 2003) and Greece (in 2009) have established Task
Forces;
• Bulgaria: in 2008 the second (after the first operated by
RENATER in France) Europe’s lab for IPv6 training and
research was established:
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Managed by Bulgarian State Agency for ICT-DAITS;
Active co-operation with EU projects, i.e. 6DEPLOY;
Over 100 experts were trained already.
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Austria
• Austrian IPv6 Task force established in 2004:
http://www.austria.ipv6tf.org/
– concentrates on the economic aspects within the Austrian business environment;
– established 5 working groups established to investigate the Austrian situation with
regard to Infrastructure, Transition, Access, Applications and Business
Opportunities and Regulation;
– Chaired by Telecom Austria;
– In 2005 TF presented Austrian IPv6 Roadmap: http://www.ipv6taskforce.at/roadmap /
• September 2004: IPv6 was enabling on the CC-TLD domain servers;
• January 2005: IPv6 peering was incorporating in the standard ISP
peering service at the Vienna Internet Exchange (VIX);
• European Commission IPv6 Conference, 2006 (http://www.ipv6convergence-vienna.net/)
Austria claims to be ready for IPv6. Telekom Austria said 4 ISPs are IPv6-customers of the
incumbent. Based on allocated IP numbers, only Finland and Switzerland had more
numbers allocated per inhabitant in 2006
Source: Warren's Washington Internet Daily, Volume 7; Issue 107, 2006
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Belgium
• Belgian IPv6 Task force established in 2003:
http://www.ipv6tf.be/
– Coordinated by Brussels Universities:
• Scientific type of activities; Light structure; No legal existence
• Support from Belgian ISP association, BELNET, BELTUG, “.be”
ccTLD
• A number of significant events were hosted:
– Belgian IPv6 Event (http://www.ipv6event.be/), 2003;
– Global IPv6 Service Launch Event (http://www.global-ipv6.net/),
2004;
– IPv6 Spring 2004 Event (http://www.ipv6spring2004.be/), 2004;
– European IPv6 Day, 2008
(http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/policy/ipv6/events/presentati
ons/index_en.htm)
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Germany
http://www.ipv6council.de
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The biggest Internet nation in Europe. The Internet population amounts to approx. 53
million users. This corresponds to an average spreading of 65%.
National IPv6 Taskforce created in 2003 (chaired by TSystems) yielded ground to the German IPv6 Council;
The German IPv6 Council is a chapter of the IPv6 Forum (world-wide consortium of
worldwide leading Internet vendors) and it was founded in 2007 in the Hasso Plattner
institute (HPI) in Potsdam :
– Chaired by HPI; 18 members from industry, politics and research;
– German IPv6 Summit 2004 (http://linda.ipv6.berkom.de/summit/index.html);
– IPv6 in Berlin, 2008 (http://www.ipv6council.de/events/german_ipv6_summit/programme.html)
– 2009: International IPv6 Application contest, International IPv6 Summit
– May, 2009: National IPv6 Action Plan:
• http://www.ipv6council.de/fileadmin/summit09/Aktionsplan.pdf;
• More focus on non technical IPv6 deployment environment.
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Finland
http://www.fi.ipv6tf.org/
• National IPv6 task force was created in 2002:
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Chaired by FICORA; over 30 participants meet quarterly;
Two IPv6 seminars and two IPv6 questionnaires were held:
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IST Event. Session "The New Internet: IPv6 Drivers and Challenges in 2006:
http://europa.eu.int/information_society/istevent/2006/cf/network-detail.cfm?id=512
Documents handled in the group may be found there:
http://www.ficora.fi/index/palvelut/palvelutaiheittain/standardointi/standardointiryhmat/ipv6.html
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The idea: active promotion of IPv6 deployment, without regulatory requirements and
financial support of transition.
• FICORA is responsible for “.fi” ccTLD administration.
Implementation of IPv6 support for “.fi” was divided in three steps:
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To provide IPv6 connectivity for the “.fi” root name servers: In 2006 was implemented the
first name server D.fi with IPv6 address. At the moment there are 3 name servers
supporting IPv6, including one based on anycast technology with more than 20 name
servers worldwide;
To allow “.fi” domain names to use name servers with IPv6 addresses: implemented in May,
2009 through an on-line management service;
To have registration/on-line management system available via IPv6: planned for 1Q, 2011.
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First-ever IPv6 test network set-up in 1995;
In 2001 was formally established G6 association which provides
technical expertise and training on IPv6: http://www.g6.asso.fr/index.php/Main_Page;
G6 took over and integrated IPv6 Task Force France (TFF)
established in 2002:
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Work is organized in 7 domains: the facilities of networks and services (operators, Internet
providers, service suppliers); networks of firms; IPv6's applications in the home; IPv6's
applications for mobiles (mobile electronics, car, public transport); applications linked to
utility (education, health, protection); security; impact on society.
In 2003 “Recommendations for a Strategic Plan in the Development and Implementation of
IPv6 Technologies in France” were issued;
IPv6 Conference in France, 2002 (http://www.renater.fr/IPv6-2002/);
6th ETSI IPv6 Plugtests, 2005 (http://www.etsi.org/plugtests/IPv6.htm);
French IPv6 Summit, 2006 (http://www.v6summit.com/);
IPv6 applications contest in July, 2009
From 2009 requirement for IPv6 compatibility was included in all
public calls for tender;
“.fr” ccTLD is offering IPv6 since 2003.
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http://www.g6.asso.fr/tff/index.php/Main_Page
http://www.fr.ipv6tf.org/
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• National task force was established under the auspices
of the Department of Communications, Energy and National
resources in 2004.
• The Irish National IPv6 Centre is responsible for IPv6 research
activities:
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situated at the Telecommunications Systems & Software Group (TSSG) at Waterford
Institute of Technology
• According to the Internet Neutral Exchange Association (INEX):
– 13 IPv6 enabled members out of 37; Limited access from most providers;
• IPv6 summit, January 2009: http://www.ipv6.ie/summit2009/
– The aim was to raise awareness in the public and private sectors about the
need for IPv6 deployment and issues surrounding deployments.
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http://www.ipv6-ireland.org/
Ireland
Malta
• National Task force established in 2005:
– is led by the Malta Communications Authority (MCA);
http://www.mt.ipv6tf.org/
– No significant incentives in relation to IPv6 deployment were made so far.
• MCA is a member of IPv6 Forum;
• At the moment MCA is drafting IPv6 strategy for Malta;
• Two events held in 2006:
– Mediterranean IPv6 Workshop: http://events.um.edu.mt/6diss/index.html
– IPv6 - The Internet needs Upgrading (seminar by the Chamber of Engineers)
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• Task force was established in 2003. Six working groups are operating:
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IPv6 mobility; Administration and best practices; LAN and applications; Training and awareness
raising; Interoperability and functioning; Operation, backbone and access network management;
• Fruitful activities:
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Numerous recommendations and educational materials were produced and published;
• Portugal IX GigaPix is ready to leverage interest from its members
about IPv6;
• Test infrastructure that enables anyone to test if their e-mail service
over IPv6 is working:
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auto@apenasipv6.fccn.pt returns automatic e-mail.
• In 2008 significant investments to enable dual-stack operation of
services were made:
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DNS, Mail and Web.
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http://www.ipv6-tf.com.pt/home.htm
Portugal
Spain
http://www.spain.ipv6tf.org/
• Task force was established in 2002:
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16 members a the moment;
Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade (MITYC) is a member of TF;
• MITYC is being active promoting IPv6 deploying through launching
numerous R&D programs:
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In fields of security, communications systems, information society services.
• Numerous significant events were hosted in Spain:
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Primer Foro IPv6 RedIris (http://www.rediris.es/red/agendaipv6.es.html)
Jornada "Desplegando IPv6" (http://www.6sos.org/eventos.php)
From Spain by Internet2 (IPv6 and IPv4).
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Global IPv6 Summits in 2001-2003, 2005
(http://www.consulintel.es/Html/ForoIPv6/madridgishomeeng.htm; http://www.ipv6-es.com/index2002.htm;
http://www.ipv6-es.com/; http://www.ipv6-es.com/05/in/i-intro.php)
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Sweden
www.pts.se/en-gb/
• Swedish IPv6 task force was created in 2003:
– Not much news after that;
• Swedish IPv6 Conference 2005 (joint with RIPE)
• Swedish Post and Telecom Agency (PTS) works in different
ways to foster IPv6 deployment:
– More in the context of increase of the robustness and security of networks.
• Swedish government made a statement: public content and
services should be available to anyone, anywhere and
anytime.
• Web page of Swedish presidency
http://www.eu2009.se is signed with DNSSEC
and available over IPv6
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UK
http://www.uk.ipv6tf.org/
• Task force was established in 2003 and was active for number of
years. However LINX (London Internet exchange) is the place
forum for the discussions at the moment:
– IPv6 Technical workshop 2009, https://www.linx.net/events/2009-ipv6/ipv62009.html;
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Only 30 of 25 million UK based name servers have IPv6 addresses;
None of the major telcos that provide access to the Internet none is yet offering an IPv6
based access service;
There is very little traffic (<1%) using IPv6 at present;
• There is no involvement from regulatory side in IPv6 issues;
• Some events held in UK:
– IPSec2008 (http://www.iipseconline.com/home.html); UK IPv6 Business Event,
2005; UK IPv6 Deployment Conference 2004
(http://www.uk.ipv6tf.org/events/manchester.html)
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Switzerland
• National task force established in 2003:
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http://www.ch.ipv6tf.org/
Chaired by Swisscom, 71 members;
No official commitment from the government in the beginning;
• 2003-2005 Swiss IPv6 Summits (http://www.sicta.ch/;
http://ch.ipv6tf.org/summit2003/);
• There is no involvement from regulatory side in IPv6 issues;
• Facts:
– Few ISPs are offering IPv6 services today;
– Swisscom offered first “all IP” service based on its IMS core
network:
• which supports IPv6 but run on IPv4, in May, 2009;
• migration to IPv6 is planned for 2010-2011.
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Where does misunderstanding lie?
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Obvious regulatory involvement exists in countries where
Regulator is responsible for DNS operation;
"It is not the government's role to force technological
development, but to enable it “, - Austrian Sec. for Arts & Media
Franz Morak
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Essential question -> Is IPv6 really a technological choice?
“The day when the first citizen, will come for egovernment services only having IPv6 address, he
(she) must still be able to use those services”, - Patrik
Fältström, Senior Consulting Engineer in Cisco, advisor to
the Swedish government on IT policy since 2003
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IPv6 is not a choice… at least for governments.
N.Gelvanovska
IPv4 Exhaustion Counter
Source: Inet Core
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