Chair, IPv6 Task Force

1. 2nd Irish IPv6 Summit: Dublin Castle
19th May 2010

2. History
of
Event
• 1st
Irish
IPv6
Summit
(Jan
2009)
– h=p://www.ipv6.ie/summit2009
• Organised
by
Irish
IPv6
Task
Force
– h=p://www.ipv6.ie/
• Supported
by:
– TSSG,
HEAnet,
DCENR,
other
members
of
the
Task
Force
• Sponsored
by:
– Science
FoundaRon
Ireland
(SFI)

3. Context:
Internet
Governance
Ecosystem
• ICANN
-­‐
in
charge
of
names
and
numbers,
sets
policy
• IANA
-­‐
operated
by
ICANN,
follows
policy
• RIRs
-­‐
regional
number
allocaRon
– AfriNIC,
APNIC,
ARIN,
LACNIC,
and
RIPE
NCC
• Internet
Society
(ISOC)
-­‐
supports
the
ecosystem
• Internet
Engineering
Task
Force
(IETF)
-­‐
defines
the
standards
(e.g.
IPv4
and
IPv6)
– Internet
Engineering
Steering
Group
(IESG)
– Internet
Architecture
Board
(IAB)

4. Context:
IPv4
Address
Shortage
• IPv4
has
over
4
billion
addresses
• But
that
simply
is
not
enough
– Fewer
that
one
for
everyone
on
the
planet
– But
we
all
use
mulRple
devices
– And
we’re
creaRng
new
devices
that
talk
to
each
other
rather
than
being
used
directly
by
a
humans
– We’ve
already
used
them
all
up,
almost

5. Context:
IPv4
Address
Shortage
• We’ve
put
of
the
day
as
long
as
could
– CIDR
(sub
divide
address
space
more
aggressively)
– NAT
(allow
non-­‐server
devices
to
share
public
addresses)
• But
now
the
Rme
is
running
out
• IANA
/8
blocks
are
the
basic
unit
of
allocaRon
to
Regional
Internet
Registries
• PredicRons
now
indicate
the
last
of
these
blocks
will
be
allocated
in
September
2011

6. Context:
IPv6
• So
there
is
no
Rme
for
a
long
debate
on
the
alternaRves
• The
Internet
community
has
already
agreed
on
IPv6
as
the
soluRon
to
IPv4
address
shortage
as
a
problem
• IPv6
has
about
340
trillion,
trillion,
trillion
addresses
• In
actual
use,
addresses
are
structured
for
rouRng
and
as
a
result
the
number
of
addresses
available
is
effecRvely
less

7. Talks
Today
Address
• End
User
– Home
user
must
wait
for
ISP
to
provide
IPv6,
or
run
a
tunnel
over
IPv4
• Enterprise
Networks
(private
and
public
sector)
– Can
make
decision
now
to
migrate
to
IPv6
– Will
have
to
deal
with
IPv6
in
very
near
future
anyway
• TelecommunicaRons
operators
and
ISPs
– Offer
Internet
connecRvity
– Should
be
planning
to
migrate
to
IPv6
asap

8. What
is
the
Internet?
• Explosive
growth
– The
defining
characterisRc
of
the
Internet
is
its
growth
– This
will
stop,
unless
we
migrate
to
IPv6
– Arguably
it
has
been
one
of
the
main
drivers
of
the
whole
economy,
revoluRonising
many
business
sectors
• Lowest
barriers
to
service
creaRon
– The
end-­‐to-­‐end
architecture
has
allowed
anyone
on
the
Internet
to
offer
a
service
to
anyone
else
on
the
Internet
– NAT
has
broken
this,
IPv6
can
help
reintroduce
it

9. Thanks
• Mícheál
Ó
Foghlú
– Chair,
Irish
IPv6
Task
Force
– ExecuRve
Director
Research
TSSG,
Waterford
InsRtute
of
Technology
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