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IPv6 activities and incentives in European
countries results from TRIS survey

• Natalija Gelvanovska
• Head of Access and Networks Section
  
  Communications Regulatory Authority of
  the Republic of Lithuania (RRT)

The view expressed in this presentation is a
personal view of the author and do not
necessarily represent the view of RRT
2020-06-13
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TRIS Survey on IPv6

• 2020-06-13

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About the Survey

• At the moment there is no benchmarking
  methodology for IPv6 deployment at the
  international level
• Outlines for Measuring IPv6 deployment (set of
  parameters) were drafted by OECD in May, 2009
• Objective of TRIS survey to create a brief
  overview of IPv6 related activities in TRIS
  countries
• Do not pretend being a comprehensive study. There
  might be more IPv6 facilities existing, that
  author may not be aware off
• Exclude IPv6 activities in academic networks
• 19 countries were investigated in terms of IPv6
  related activities.
• Following areas were investigated
• public incentives and market activities related
  to IPv6 deployment
• regulators role and incentives encouraging  IPv6
  deployment.
• Following information was summarized
• Contributions of TRIS members
• Contributions to ITU TSB Circular 30 concerning a
  questionnaire on IPv6 following WTSA-08
  Resolution 64 (Questionnaire IPv6 address
  allocation and encouraging the deployment of
  IPv6)
• information form National IPv6 Task Force pages.

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Interviewed countries TRIS countries
Nr. Country
1 Austria
2 Belgium
3 Bulgaria
4 Denmark
5 Finland
6 France
7 Germany
8 Greece
9 Ireland
10 Latvia
11 Lithuania
12 Malta
13 Norway
14 Portugal
15 Romania
16 Spain
17 Sweden
18 Switzerland
19 UK
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2007-2008 in IPv4 / IPv6 address adoption
Source NRO
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National IPv6 Task Forces
Nr. Country
1 Austria (pending)
2 Belgium
3 Bulgaria
4 Denmark
5 Finland
6 France
7 Germany (pending)
8 Greece
9 Ireland
10 Latvia
11 Lithuania
12 Malta
13 Norway
14 Portugal
15 Romania
16 Spain
17 Sweden
18 Switzerland
19 UK
Source TRIS Survey http//www.eu.ipv6tf.org/in/i
-enlaces.php
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Less active countries

• Lithuania, Latvia, Romania, Bulgaria, Norway do
  not have National Task Forces established
• Situation in Lithuania, Latvia, Romania and
  Denmark might be described as following
• nobody is promoting/encouraging IPv6 deployment
  or at least there is nothing organized.
• However in Denmark public procurement strategy
  as a rule calls for IPv6 enabled solutions
  National Strategy and Action plan are being
  drafted.
• Denmark (in 2003) and Greece (in 2009) have
  established Task Forces
• Bulgaria in 2008 the second (after the first
  operated by RENATER in France) Europes lab
  for IPv6 training and research was
  established
• Managed by Bulgarian State Agency for ICT-DAITS
• Active co-operation with EU projects, i.e.
  6DEPLOY
• Over 100 experts were trained already.

http//www.ipv6-taskforce.dk
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Austria

• Austrian IPv6 Task force established in 2004
• concentrates on the economic aspects within the
  Austrian business environment
• established 5 working groups established to
  investigate the Austrian situation with regard to
  Infrastructure, Transition, Access, Applications
  and Business Opportunities and Regulation
• Chaired by Telecom Austria
• In 2005 TF presented Austrian IPv6 Roadmap
  http//www.ipv6taskforce.at/roadmap/
• September 2004 IPv6 was enabling on the CC-TLD
  domain servers
• January 2005 IPv6 peering was incorporating in
  the standard ISP peering service at the Vienna
  Internet Exchange (VIX)
• European Commission IPv6 Conference, 2006
  (http//www.ipv6-convergence-vienna.net/)
• Austria claims to be ready for IPv6. Telekom
  Austria said 4 ISPs are IPv6-customers of the
  incumbent. Based on allocated IP numbers, only
  Finland and Switzerland had more numbers
  allocated per inhabitant in 2006
  
  Source Warren's Washington Internet Daily,
  Volume 7 Issue 107, 2006

http//www.austria.ipv6tf.org/
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Belgium

• Belgian IPv6 Task force established in 2003
• Coordinated by Brussels Universities
• Scientific type of activities Light structure
  No legal existence
• Support from Belgian ISP association, BELNET,
  BELTUG, .be ccTLD
• A number of significant events were hosted
• Belgian IPv6 Event (http//www.ipv6event.be/),
  2003
• Global IPv6 Service Launch Event
  (http//www.global-ipv6.net/), 2004
• IPv6 Spring 2004 Event (http//www.ipv6spring2004
  .be/), 2004
• European IPv6 Day, 2008 (http//ec.europa.eu/info
  rmation_society/policy/ipv6/events/presentations/i
  ndex_en.htm)

http//www.ipv6tf.be/
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Germany
http//www.ipv6council.de

• The biggest Internet nation in Europe. The
  Internet population amounts to approx. 53 million
  users. This corresponds to an average spreading
  of 65.
• National IPv6
  Taskforce created in 2003 (chaired by T-
• Systems) yielded
  ground to the German IPv6 Council
• The German IPv6 Council is a chapter of the IPv6
  Forum (world-wide consortium of worldwide leading
  Internet vendors) and it was founded in 2007 in
  the Hasso Plattner institute (HPI) in Potsdam
• Chaired by HPI 18 members from industry,
  politics and research
• German IPv6 Summit 2004 (http//linda.ipv6.berkom.
  de/summit/index.html)
• IPv6 in Berlin, 2008 (http//www.ipv6council.de/ev
  ents/german_ipv6_summit/programme.html)
• 2009 International IPv6 Application contest,
  International IPv6 Summit
• May, 2009 National IPv6 Action Plan
• http//www.ipv6council.de/fileadmin/summit09/Aktio
  nsplan.pdf
• More focus on non technical IPv6 deployment
  environment.

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Finland
http//www.fi.ipv6tf.org/

• National IPv6 task force was created in 2002
• Chaired by FICORA over 30 participants meet
  quarterly
• Two IPv6 seminars and two IPv6 questionnaires
  were held
• IST Event. Session "The New Internet IPv6
  Drivers and Challenges in 2006
  http//europa.eu.int/information_society/istevent/
  2006/cf/network-detail.cfm?id512
• Documents handled in the group may be found
  there http//www.ficora.fi/index/palvelut/palvelu
  taiheittain/standardointi/standardointiryhmat/ipv6
  .html
• The idea active promotion of IPv6 deployment,
  without regulatory requirements and financial
  support of transition.
• FICORA is responsible for .fi ccTLD
  administration. Implementation of IPv6 support
  for .fi was divided in three steps
• To provide IPv6 connectivity for the .fi root
  name servers In 2006 was implemented the first
  name server D.fi with IPv6 address. At the moment
  there are 3 name servers supporting IPv6,
  including one based on anycast technology with
  more than 20 name servers worldwide
• To allow .fi domain names to use name servers
  with IPv6 addresses implemented in May, 2009
  through an on-line management service
• To have registration/on-line management system
  available via IPv6 planned for 1Q, 2011.

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France

• First-ever IPv6 test network set-up in 1995
• In 2001 was formally established G6 association
  which provides technical expertise and training
  on IPv6 http//www.g6.asso.fr/index.php/Main_Page
  
• G6 took over and integrated IPv6 Task Force
  France (TFF) established in 2002
• Work is organized in 7 domains the facilities of
  networks and services (operators, Internet
  providers, service suppliers) networks of firms
  IPv6's applications in the home IPv6's
  applications for mobiles (mobile electronics,
  car, public transport) applications linked to
  utility (education, health, protection)
  security impact on society.
• In 2003 Recommendations for a Strategic Plan in
  the Development and Implementation of IPv6
  Technologies in France were issued
• IPv6 Conference in France, 2002
  (http//www.renater.fr/IPv6-2002/)
• 6th ETSI IPv6 Plugtests, 2005 (http//www.etsi.org
  /plugtests/IPv6.htm)
• French IPv6 Summit, 2006 (http//www.v6summit.com/
  )
• IPv6 applications contest in July, 2009
• From 2009 requirement for IPv6 compatibility was
  included in all public calls for tender
• .fr ccTLD is offering IPv6 since 2003.

http//www.g6.asso.fr/tff/index.php/Main_Page http
//www.fr.ipv6tf.org/
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Ireland
http//www.ipv6-ireland.org/

• National task force was established under the
  auspices of the Department of
  Communications, Energy and National resources in
  2004.
• The Irish National IPv6 Centre is responsible for
  IPv6 research activities
• situated at the Telecommunications Systems
  Software Group (TSSG) at Waterford Institute of
  Technology
• According to the Internet Neutral Exchange
  Association (INEX)
• 13 IPv6 enabled members out of 37 Limited access
  from most providers
• IPv6 summit, January 2009 http//www.ipv6.ie/summ
  it2009/
• The aim was to raise awareness in the public and
  private sectors about the need for IPv6
  deployment and issues surrounding deployments.

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Malta

• National Task force established in 2005
• is led by the Malta Communications Authority
  (MCA)
• No significant incentives in relation to IPv6
  deployment were made so far.
• MCA is a member of IPv6 Forum
• At the moment MCA is drafting IPv6 strategy for
  Malta
• Two events held in 2006
• Mediterranean IPv6 Workshop http//events.um.edu.
  mt/6diss/index.html
• IPv6 - The Internet needs Upgrading (seminar by
  the Chamber of Engineers)

http//www.mt.ipv6tf.org/
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Portugal

• Task force was established in 2003. Six working
  groups are operating
• IPv6 mobility Administration and best practices
  LAN and applications Training and awareness
  raising Interoperability and functioning
  Operation, backbone and access network
  management
• Fruitful activities
• Numerous recommendations and educational
  materials were produced and published
• Portugal IX GigaPix is ready to leverage interest
  from its members about IPv6
• Test infrastructure that enables anyone to test
  if their e-mail service over IPv6 is working
• auto_at_apenasipv6.fccn.pt returns automatic e-mail.
• In 2008 significant investments to enable
  dual-stack operation of services were made
• DNS, Mail and Web.

http//www.ipv6-tf.com.pt/home.htm
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Spain
http//www.spain.ipv6tf.org/

• Task force was established in 2002
• 16 members a the moment
• Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade (MITYC)
  is a member of TF
• MITYC is being active promoting IPv6 deploying
  through launching numerous RD programs
• In fields of security, communications systems,
  information society services.
• Numerous significant events were hosted in Spain
• Primer Foro IPv6 RedIris (http//www.rediris.es/re
  d/agendaipv6.es.html)
• Jornada "Desplegando IPv6" (http//www.6sos.org/ev
  entos.php) From Spain by Internet2 (IPv6 and
  IPv4).
• Global IPv6 Summits in 2001-2003, 2005
  (http//www.consulintel.es/Html/ForoIPv6/madridgis
  homeeng.htm http//www.ipv6-es.com/index2002.htm
  http//www.ipv6-es.com/ http//www.ipv6-es.com/0
  5/in/i-intro.php)

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Sweden

• Swedish IPv6 task force was created in 2003
• Not much news after that
• Swedish IPv6 Conference 2005 (joint with RIPE)
• Swedish Post and Telecom Agency (PTS) works in
  different ways to foster IPv6 deployment
• More in the context of increase of the robustness
  and security of networks.
• Swedish government made a statement public
  content and services should be available to
  anyone, anywhere and anytime.
• Web page of Swedish presidency
  http//www.eu2009.se is signed with DNSSEC
  and available over IPv6

www.pts.se/en-gb/
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UK
http//www.uk.ipv6tf.org/

• Task force was established in 2003 and was active
  for number of years. However LINX (London
  Internet exchange) is the place forum for the
  discussions at the moment
• IPv6 Technical workshop 2009, https//www.linx.ne
  t/events/2009-ipv6/ipv6-2009.html
• Facts
• Only 30 of 25 million UK based name servers have
  IPv6 addresses
• None of the major telcos that provide access to
  the Internet none is yet offering an IPv6 based
  access service
• There is very little traffic (lt1) using IPv6 at
  present
• There is no involvement from regulatory side in
  IPv6 issues
• Some events held in UK
• IPSec2008 (http//www.iipseconline.com/home.html)
  UK IPv6 Business Event, 2005 UK IPv6 Deployment
  Conference 2004 (http//www.uk.ipv6tf.org/events/m
  anchester.html)

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Switzerland

• National task force established in 2003
• Chaired by Swisscom, 71 members
• No official commitment from the government in the
  beginning
• 2003-2005 Swiss IPv6 Summits (http//www.sicta.ch/
  http//ch.ipv6tf.org/summit2003/)
• There is no involvement from regulatory side in
  IPv6 issues
• Facts
• Few ISPs are offering IPv6 services today
• Swisscom offered first all IP service based on
  its IMS core network
• which supports IPv6 but run on IPv4, in May,
  2009
• migration to IPv6 is planned for 2010-2011.

http//www.ch.ipv6tf.org/
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Where does misunderstanding lie?

• Obvious regulatory involvement exists in
  countries where Regulator is responsible for DNS
  operation
• "It is not the government's role to force
  technological development, but to enable it , -
  Austrian Sec. for Arts Media Franz Morak
• Essential question -gt Is IPv6 really a
  technological choice?
• The day when the first citizen, will come for
  e-government services only having IPv6 address,
  he (she) must still be able to use those
  services, - Patrik Fältström, Senior Consulting
  Engineer in Cisco, advisor to the Swedish
  government on IT policy since 2003
• IPv6 is not a choice at least for governments.

IPv4 Exhaustion Counter Source Inet Core
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