"IPv6 Australia Update" by Michael Biber. A presentation given at the APNIC 40 IPv6 Readiness BoF session on Wed 9 Sep 2015.

1. IPv6 deployment:
Australia Update
9h September2015
APNIC40
By Michael Biber
A/Chair
Asia Pacific IPv6 Task Force
IPv6 Forum Australia

2. Agenda
• IPv4 address exhaustion - issues arising
• IPv6 deployment status update
– Australia
• IPv6 Next Challenges
– The Enterprise
– The Internet of Things

3. IPv4 address exhaustion - Mindset
http://www.potaroo.net/tools/ipv4/index.html
• IPv4 land grab?
• Corporate Governance
• Business Continuity
• Post-exhaustion
mitigation
• APNIC Reclamation of
unused IPv4 space
• IPv4 brokers – emerging
Markets in IPv4 addresses
• Increased interest in
Transition mechanisms

4. Global Google IPv6 Access
http://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html 7/9/2015
Doubling every 9
months

5. AU IPv6 Google status
http://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html#tab=per-country-ipv6-adoption 16/9/2014
Doubling every 6
months

6. AU IPv6 Allocated Prefixes
http://www.vyncke.org/ipv6status/plotbgp.php?country=au 9/9/2015

7. IPv4 Resale Growing
• 2011 Microsoft purchases ex-Nortel 666,124 IPv4
addresses for US$7.5M
• Prices generally range from US$9-US$11 @
• Telcos are emerging as big customers, e.g., Saudi
Arabia, Iran, many others
• Several resale business now established
– 4now.com (based in Australia)
– www.ipv4auctions.com
– www.iptrading.com
• etc., etc.,

8. AU IPv6 ISP status
AARNET3 with IPv6 - deployed 2006
IPv6Now Commercial SLA Tunnels - April 30, 2008
Internode (iiNet) NATIVE commenced - July 18, 2008
Telstra offered from TID core, fibre, Ethernet and ADSL business
customers - September 5, 2011
Optus spokesman said it was ''currently carrying IPv6 traffic
across our core IP network from several businesses and
wholesale customers as well as international carriers''.
PIPE/TPG, “ready since 2010”, Dodo, others…
Tunnels are not necessarily ‘evil ‘(GH). At present, they are the
only way to do v6 for many end users.
Anyway, ALL communications are tunneled…Layer 4 to 3 to 2 to 1
and back again…etc.

9. Sys Admin in the Mix
System Administrators Guild of Australia
Offering members /48 address range
National SAGE-AU IPv6 Roadshow
www.ipv6roadshow.org.au
K-12 Independent Schools Remote
Access Network
Every school: /48 address range
Every student: permanent IPv6 address
> 47,000 IPv6 Accounts

10. Communications Alliance
• Interim report has the following IoT
recommendations:
– “Near universal agreement to use IPv6 for higher
level IoT connectivity”
– “IPv6 as standards enabler”
– IoT devices as Actuators as well as Sensors
– Incorporate new sources of data, including social
media and sensors in the Internet of Things
– a growing recognition that this can only be IPv6
only.

11. Way forward
International knowledge and information
sharing
Avoid reinventing the wheel
 Reaching out to end user and management
stakeholders as well as the technical stakeholder
 Identifying and contributing to
Best Common Practice
IGF IPv6 Best Practice
bp_ipv6@intgovforum.org

12. Thank you!
A/Chair: Mike Biber
APIPv6TF
mbiber@ipv6forum.com.au