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This article attempts to provide an overview of Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) deployment around the world.

To drive the deployment of IPv6, regional and local IPv6 Task Forces were created.[1] On 20 July 2004 ICANN announced that the root DNS servers for the Internet had been upgraded to support both IPv6 and IPv4. The current integration of IPv6 on existing network infrastructures could be monitored from different sources, for example:

  • Regional Internet Registries (RIR) IPv6 Prefix Allocation[2]
  • IPv6 Transit services[3]
  • Japan ISP IPv6 services[4]


IPv6 testing, evaluation, and certification

A few international organizations are involved with IPv6 test and evaluation ranging from the United States Department of Defense to the University of New Hampshire.

In February 1999, The IPv6 Forum,[5] a world-wide consortium of worldwide leading Internet vendors, industry subject matter experts, research and education networks was founded to promote the IPv6 technology and raise the market and industry awareness.

Government incentives

A number of governments, however, are starting to require support for IPv6 in new equipment. The U.S. Government, for example, has specified that the network backbones of all federal agencies had to be upgraded to IPv6 by June 30, 2008, which was completed before the deadline.[6][7][8][9] Their decision should further encourage the private sector and the rest of the World to migrate as well.

The People's Republic of China has a 5 year plan for deployment of IPv6 called the China Next Generation Internet. According to Kshemendra Paul, chief architect at the U.S. Department of Justice, Asia is experiencing a huge demand for addresses and thus is one of the strongest adopters of IPv6.[10]

2008 Olympic Games IPv6 showcase

The 2008 Summer Olympic Games website is operational on the IPv6 Internet at http://ipv6.beijing2008.cn/en (IP address: 2001:252:0:1::2008:6 and 2001:252:0:1::2008:8) and all network operations of the Games will be conducted using IPv6. This event is expected to be the largest showcase of IPv6 technology since the inception of IPv6.[11]

Australia

  • Internode is the first commercial ISP in Australia to have full IPv6 connectivity, and are currently making IPv6 available to customers[12]. The availability to customers was officially announced to Whirlpool on July 18th 2008[13].

France

  • AFNIC, the NIC for (among others) the .fr Top Level Domain, has implemented IPv6 operations.[14]
  • Renater, the french national academical network, is offering IPv6 connectivity including multicast support to their members.
  • Free, a major French ISP rolled-out IPv6 at end of year 2007[15].
  • Nerim, a small ISP provides native IPv6 for all its clients since March 2003.[16]
  • Orange has done IPv6 experimentation, official support is still unclear.
  • OVH has implemented IPv6.[17]

Netherlands

  • SURFnet, maintainer of the Dutch academical network SURFnet, introduced IPv6 to its network 1997, in the beginning using IPv6-to-IPv4 tunnels. Currently its backbone is entirely running dual-stack, supporting both native IPv4 and IPv6 to most of its users.[18].
  • XS4All, is a major Dutch ISP. In 2002 XS4All was the first Dutch broadband provider to introduce IPv6 to its network.[19], but it was only experimental and they disabled that service again. As such they are at the moment (2008) only providing IPv6 with the help of a Tunnel Broker.
  • Business-orientated Internet Provider BIT BV has been providing IPv6 to all their customers (DSL, FTTH, colocated) since 2004 [20].
  • SixXS, of which the two founders are Dutch, has been providing IPv6 to users worldwide with tunneled connectivity since 2000, starting out as IPng.nl with a predominantly Dutch user-base. The switch to SixXS was initiated to change to be able to reach users internationally and also to be completely ISP independent.[21]. SixXS also provides various other sub-projects which contributed significantly to IPv6 adoption and stability globally.

United Kingdom

  • JANET, the UK's education and research network, is introducing IPv6 unicast support into its service level agreement by August 2008[22]. Several major UK universities (e.g., Cambridge) are upgrading their campus routing infrastructure during summer 2008 to provide IPv6 unicast support to their users.
  • The UK Government is intending to replace much of its Wide Area Network with a new Public Sector Network (PSN) starting from late 2009. The PSN will be based on IPv6[23].

Other Countries

Major IPv6 announcements and availability

Year Announcements and availability
1996 Linux gains alpha quality IPv6 support in kernel development version 2.1.8.[24]
1997 In the end of 1997, a large number of implementations existed and were interoperable. [25][26]
In the end of 1997 IBM's AIX 4.3 was the first commercial platform that supported IPv6.[27][28]
1998 Microsoft Research[29] first released an experimental IPv6 stack in 1998. This support was not intended for use in a production environment.
2000 Production-quality BSD support for IPv6 has been generally available since early to mid-2000 in FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD via the KAME project.[30]
Microsoft releases an IPv6 technology preview version for Windows 2000 in March 2000.[29]
Sun Solaris has IPv6 support since Solaris 8 in February 2000.[31]
2001 Cisco Systems introduced IPv6 support on Cisco IOS routers and L3 switches in 2001.[32]
2002 Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 SP1 had limited IPv6 support for research and testing since at least 2002.
Microsoft Windows XP (2001) had IPv6 support for developmental purposes. In Windows XP SP1 (2002) and Windows Server 2003, IPv6 is included as a core networking technology, suitable for commercial deployment.[33]
IBM z/OS has supported IPv6 since version 1.4 that has been generally available since September 2002.[34]
2003 Apple Mac OS X v10.3 "Panther" (2003) has IPv6 supported and enabled by default.[35]
In July, ICANN announced that the IPv6 AAAA records for the Japan (.jp) and Korea (.kr) country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) nameservers became visible in the DNS root server zone files with serial number 2004072000. The IPv6 records for France (.fr) were added a little later. This made IPv6 operational in a public fashion.
2005 Linux 2.6.12 removes IPv6's "experimental" status.[36]
2007 Microsoft Windows Vista (2007) has IPv6 supported and enabled by default.[33]
Apple's AirPort Extreme 802.11n base station is an IPv6 gateway in its default configuration. It uses 6to4 tunneling and can optionally route through a manually configured IPv4 tunnel.[37]
2008 On February 4th 2008, IANA added AAAA records for the IPv6 addresses of six of the thirteen root name servers.[38][39] With this transition, it is now possible for two internet hosts to communicate via DNS without using IPv4 at all.
On March 12th, 2008, Google launched an IPv6 version of www.google.com, the most visited page on the Internet, under an alternative host name (ipv6.google.com).[40]

See also

References

  1. ^ IPv6 Task Forces
  2. ^ IPv6 prefix allocation
  3. ^ IPv6 transit
  4. ^ IPv6 services in Japan
  5. ^ The IPv6 Forum
  6. ^ August 2005 directive from the Office of Management Budget
  7. ^ DOD to allocate its IPv6 addresses
  8. ^ Bitten by IPv6 (correction to the first report)
  9. ^ Providing the Tools for Information Sharing: Net-Centric Enterprise Services (Department of Defense Chief Information Officer Information Policy Directorate)
  10. ^ Ferraro, Nicole (July 11 2008). "Forward March to IPv6 by 2010". www.InternetEvolution.com. Retrieved 2008-07-14. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  11. ^ IPv6 and the 2008 Beijing Olympics
  12. ^ Internode and IPv6
  13. ^ Internode releases national IPv6 access
  14. ^ AFNIC full IPv6 ready
  15. ^ IPv6 Rolled-out at ISP Free
  16. ^ Nerim - IPv6 (in French)
  17. ^ OVH : Ipv4Ipv6
  18. ^ IPv6 at SURFnet
  19. ^ IPv6 at XS4All
  20. ^ Computable 2004-05-14
  21. ^ SixXS History
  22. ^ JANET AND IPv6
  23. ^ Project Ocean bidders' pack [1]
  24. ^ Linux IPv6 Development Project
  25. ^ IETF December 1997 Proceedings
  26. ^ IESG: Implementation Report
  27. ^ IPv6 support shipping in AIX 3.3
  28. ^ Its AIX 4.3.
  29. ^ a b Internet Protocol Version 6 (old Microsoft Research IPv6 release)
  30. ^ KAME project
  31. ^ Sun Solaris 8 changes from Solaris 7
  32. ^ Cisco main IPv6 site
  33. ^ a b Microsofts main IPv6 site
  34. ^ IBM: z/OS operating system
  35. ^ Mac OS X 10.3 Using IPv6
  36. ^ Linux 2.6.12 changelog
  37. ^ Apple AirPort Extreme technical specifications.
  38. ^ IPv6: coming to a root server near you
  39. ^ IANA - IPv6 Addresses for the Root Servers
  40. ^ Google - Looking Towards IPv6.

External links

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=IPv6_deployment&diff=prev&oldid=227500899

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