Migration to IPv6 – Has Tomorrow Finally Arrived? John Curran

Migration to IPv6 – Has Tomorrow Finally Arrived? John Curran ARIN President & CEO

Quick History of the Internet Protocol Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4, or just “IP”) – First developed for the original Internet (ARPANET) in spring 1978 – Deployed globally with growth of the Internet – Total of 4 billion IP addresses available – Well entrenched and used by every ISP and hosting company to connect customers to the Internet – Allocated based on documented need Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) – Design started in 1993 when IETF forecasts showed IPv4 depletion between 2010 and 2017 – Completed, tested, and available for production since 1999 – Total of 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 IP addresses available – Used and managed similar to IPv4 2

About IPv4 and IPv6 IP version IPv4 IPv6 Deployed 1981 1999 Address Size 32-bit number 128-bit number Address Format Dotted Decimal Notation: 192.0.2.76 Number of Addresses 232 4,294,967,296 Hexadecimal Notation: 2001:0DB8:0234:AB00: 0123:4567:8901:ABCD 2128 340,282,366,920,938,463, 463,374,607,431,768,211,4 56 2001:0DB8:0234::/48 2600:0000::/12 Examples of 192.0.2.0/24 Prefix 10/8 Notation (a “/8” block 1/256th of total IPv4 address space 224 16,777,216 addresses) 3

IPv4 Address Space Utilization *as of 3 February 2011 4

Available IPv4 Space in /8s 5

IPv6 Deployment has begun RIRs have been allocating IPv6 address space since 1999. Thousands of organizations have received an IPv6 allocation to date. ARIN has IPv6 distribution policies for service providers, community networks, and end-user organizations of all types. 6

IPv4 & IPv6 Coexistence Today, the Internet is predominantly based on IPv4. For the foreseeable future, the Internet must run both IP versions (IPv4 & IPv6) at the same time. (When done on a single device, this is called the “dual-stack” approach.) Deployment is already underway. Today, there are organizations attempting to reach your mail, web, and application servers via IPv6. 7

Action Plans What does this mean for: Broadband Access Providers? Internet Service Providers? Internet Content Providers? Educational & Corporate Organizations? 8

Call to Action Your customers want access to the entire Internet, and this means IPv4 and IPv6 websites. Offering full access requires running IPv4/IPv6 transition services and is a significant engineering project. Multiple transition technologies are available, and each provider needs to make its own architectural decisions. 9

Call to Action Plan out how to connect businesses via IPv6-only and IPv4/IPv6 in addition to IPv4-only. Businesses are beginning to ask for IPv6 over their existing Internet connections and for their co-located servers. Communicate with your peers and vendors about IPv6, and confirm their timelines for production IPv6 services. 10

Call to Action Content must be reachable to newer Internet customers. Content served only via IPv4 will be accessed by IPv6 customers via transition solutions run by access providers. Plan on serving content via IPv6 in addition to IPv4 as soon as possible. 11

Call to Action Mail, web, and application servers must be reachable via IPv6 in addition to IPv4. Open a dialogue with your Internet Service Provider about providing IPv6 services. Consider IPv6 support to the server & desktop. 12 Each organization must decide on timelines, and investment level will vary.

Learn More and Get Involved Learn more about IPv6 www.arin.net www.getipv6.info www.TeamARIN.net Get Involved in ARIN Public Policy Mailing List Attend a Meeting http://www.arin.net/participate/ 13

Thank You 14