IPv6 Matrix Project
Tracking IPv6 connectivity Worldwide
http://www.ipv6matrix.org
Dr. Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond – ocl@gih.com
INET London, 29 September 2010
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We are running out of IP addresses
today
http://www.potaroo.net/tools/ipv4/index.html
When we reach this point, it will be too late since
there will be no more “free” IPv4 addresses!
Real time data collected 1 Mar 2010
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IPv6 Matrix Project
ISOC England was awarded a Community
Grants Programme award in November
2009
Design and implementation of an “IPv6
Crawler,” software on a computer that
would crawl through the DNS at regular
intervals in order to detect and test:
IPv6 DNS servers
IPv6 compliant Web servers
IPv6 compliant SMTP mailers
IPv6 compliant NTP servers.
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Project Rationale
Today, the vast majority of internet traffic is generated
by a small number of data sources – i.e. the world’s
busiest Web Sites
Without IPv6 accessible content, IPv6 has no chance
of being used - ever.
Take the 1 Million most popular Web site list from
alexa.com as a starting point for the domains to be
tested. Add more domains later.
This is equivalent to testing about 6.3 million hosts
worldwide
Use GeoIP database to estimate real host location
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Teams
London, UK:
Project Management and support
Hardware supply and installation
Data Centre and IPv6 connectivity
Nile University, Egypt:
Programming
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www.ipv6matrix.org Web Site
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Europe Data snapshot
2.20% 3.20%
0.00% 0.84%
IPv6 Host Penetration
Europe Map + figures 6.68%
DNS+WWW+ 0.26%
1.47% 4.29%
SMTP+NTP (Web+NTP / WEB only) 0.80%
2.03%
0.20%
0.06% 0.64%
WWW only 1.91% 1.49% 4.39% 0.74% 0.47% 0.41%
0.24% 0.64% 0.99% 0.18% 0.12%
4.34%
0.09%
Low sample
1.34% 3.40%
0.14% 2.79%
2.39% 0.63%
0.41% 0.10%
0.23% 0.56% 13.42%
4.23% 0.35% 0.11% 16.38%
2.29%
6.57% 1.12%
0.67% 10.10% 0.11%
0.42% 10.74%
4.01% 2.32% 2.80% 3.48% 1.74%
Sept 2010
0.43% 1.55% 1.73% 0.30%
1.34%
0.55%
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Asia Data snapshot
IPv6 Host Penetration 0.20%
0.06%
7.38%
DNS+WWW+ 0.00%
SMTP+NTP
WWW only
0.09% 1.31%
0.39% 0.11% 0.15%
0.48%
1.50% 0.25%
Low sample 1.58% 0.20% 0.09%
0.18% 1.18%
1.46% 1.03%
1.01% 0.87% 2.78%
0.00% 3.09%
0.65% 8.59%
0.89% 0.14% 1.94%
0.00% 3.03% 25.00%
3.03% 3.16% 50.00%
0.52%
0.56% 1.89% 0.09%
0.56% 0.51% 0.00% 1.52% 2.52%
0.11% 0.42%
Sept 2010
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Future Work – funding required
Add more domains to be tested
Add more features to be tested
Current front end Web Pages are only an
example of possible analysis
Develop new data visualisation
Perform further analysis
Perform historical/time analysis from archives
Develop an engine to write automated reports
Duplicate Crawler to other regions
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Thank you
Contact: Dr. Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond – ocl@gih.com
CTM
International
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