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June 6, 2018 marks the 6-year anniversary of what is known as\u00a0World IPv6 Launch<\/a>.\u00a0 This event, which was coordinated by the\u00a0Internet Society<\/a>\u00a0(ISOC), took place on June 6, 2012. On that date, many of the large content providers permanently enabled IPv6 on their primary web sites.\u00a0 Content providers such as Facebook, Google, Yahoo, Akamai, and Limelight Networks promised to turn on IPv6 and leave it turned on.\u00a0 Internet service providers such as Time Warner Cable (now Charter Communications), Comcast, AT&T, Free Telecom, Internode, KDDI, and XS4ALL also promised to enable IPv6 service for over 1% of their subscribers.\u00a0 Network equipment companies such as Cisco, Juniper, and D-Link promised to have IPv6-enabled devices for providers and subscribers and rapidly troubleshoot any problems encountered.<\/p>\n

World IPv6 Launch<\/a>\u00a0was preceded by\u00a0World IPv6 Day<\/a>.\u00a0 World IPv6 Day was on June 8, 2011 and was a single 24-hour trial where content providers tried to ascertain the percentage of Internet users who may have trouble connecting to their sites using IPv6.\u00a0 They accomplished this by enabling IPv6 for their primary web domains (e.g.,\u00a0www.google.com<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0www.yahoo.com<\/a>). There was concern about problems end-users might experience when their devices were presented with a choice of Internet protocols and\u00a0there was much preparing<\/a>\u00a0to avoid these issues.\u00a0 Though there was some fear among the IT community over World IPv6 day, it ended up being a bit more like an uneventful\u00a0Y2K<\/a>.\u00a0 This gave confidence to the content providers that IPv6 was not going to adversely impact their end-user\u2019s experience.<\/p>\n

The concern about \u201cIPv6 Brokenness<\/a>\u201d lead to the development of\u00a0Happy Eyeballs<\/a>\u00a0(RFC 6555) which\u00a0makes TCP\/IP stacks in hosts more aggressive about making simultaneous IPv4 and IPv6 connections<\/a>\u00a0and then choosing IPv6 if they are connecting equivalently fast.\u00a0 Prior to Happy Eyeballs, TCP\/IP stacks would attempt to connect to dual-protocol destinations using IPv6 first then fall back to trying IPv4 if IPv6 didn\u2019t connect. \u00a0This broken IPv6 connectivity led an extremely small population of end-users to believe the site they were trying to reach was down because of the potentially long duration for their web browsers and OSs to eventually connect with IPv4. Content providers worried that such a conclusion might cause damage to their brands and they hesitated to unilaterally enable IPv6 for their primary web domains.<\/p>\n

These connection optimization methods are now implemented into virtually all mobile device operating systems and most web browsers.\u00a0 As a result, when end-users are connected to a network that offers them the opportunity to use either IPv4 or IPv6, they are assured that they will be able to reliably connect.\u00a0 As a result, most mobile device users are using IPv6 and they don\u2019t even realize it.\u00a0 That is ideal, because we, in the IT community, don\u2019t want to have to explain to our family members what an IPv6 address is while trying to enjoy a leisurely summer barbeque.<\/p>\n

Now 6 years later, there is\u00a0life after World IPv6 Launch<\/a>, and we have witnessed the sustained growth of IPv6 adoption across the Internet.\u00a0 There are many sites that collect and display statistics and offer their observations about IPv6 as well as provide comparisons to IPv4.\u00a0 However, the key location for information about World IPv6 Launch success is the\u00a0World IPv6 Launch Measurements site<\/a>\u00a0itself.\u00a0 This ISOC-supported site\u00a0collects measurements<\/a>\u00a0from a variety of sources and then produces graphs of the percentage of subscribers or users an organization has who are actively using IPv6.\u00a0 Statistics are collected from the ISPs who participated in World IPv6 Launch six years ago as well as data from Akamai, APNIC, Facebook and Google.\u00a0 Akamai also has their own\u00a0IPv6 Adoption Visualization<\/a>\u00a0site that shows IPv6 usage for countries or specific networks.<\/p>\n

Our friend and Infoblox IPv6 COE colleague\u00a0Tom Coffeen<\/a>\u00a0(@ipv6tom<\/a>) has also put together two articles about the valuable websites showing IPv6 adoption (Part 1<\/a>,\u00a0Part 2<\/a>) and providing guidance for organizations looking to deploy IPv6.<\/p>\n

Another useful report that synthesizes all of the effort put forth toward deploying IPv6 and measurements of the resulting increases in IPv6 deployment on the Internet is the\u00a0HexaBuild IPv6 Adoption Report<\/a>.\u00a0 This report, and its\u00a0accompanying infographic<\/a>, shows many graphs and statistics of IPv6 adoption showing significant progress deploying IPv6 by mobile carriers, broadband Internet providers, backbone ISPs, and large content providers.\u00a0 This report also discusses how many commercial enterprises have yet to put forth any real effort toward IPv6 implementation on their Internet perimeter or interior networks.<\/p>\n

Examples of some of the successful IPv6 deployments since World IPv6 Launch can be seen in the World IPv6 Launch graphs for\u00a0Comcast<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0T-Mobile<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Comcast<\/p>\n

\"T-mobile<\/p>\n

These simple graphs perhaps conceal the tremendous amount of hard work by many individuals to reach these levels of IPv6 traffic.\u00a0 These service providers had a massive amount of equipment to upgrade and configure to establish a robust IPv6-enabled backbone network and Internet peering.\u00a0 These companies also had to upgrade their subscriber access networks.\u00a0 In the case of Comcast this required the upgrading of many\u00a0CMTSs<\/a>, while in the case of T-Mobile it required upgrades to their 4G wireless access systems.\u00a0 These companies also needed to help their subscribers upgrade their CPE devices.\u00a0 For Comcast this meant getting their subscribers to move to\u00a0DOCSIS<\/a>\u00a03.0\/3.1 modems and\u00a0upgrade their home routers<\/a>, set-top-boxes, etc.\u00a0 For T-Mobile, that meant getting their subscribers to use smartphones with dual-protocol operating systems (like\u00a0Apple iOS<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Android<\/a>) while also comprehensively testing the IPv6 capabilities of the phones.\u00a0 Congratulations to Comcast and T-Mobile for their outstanding achievements!<\/p>\n

The graph that is shown the most to demonstrate the tremendous adoption of IPv6 is the\u00a0Google IPv6 Statistics<\/a>\u00a0page.\u00a0 Google has a global perspective of the whole Internet using both IPv4 and IPv6.\u00a0 They are well-positioned to observe IPv6 adoption around the globe.\u00a0 The graph below shows significant progress in IPv6 global adoption in the 6 most recent years since World IPv6 Launch back in 2012.<\/p>\n

\"Google<\/p>\n

Now we might ask ourselves what comes next for IPv6?\u00a0 It sure seems like there has been a tremendous amount of success among the service providers, content providers, and mobile device manufacturers and\u00a0mobile app developers<\/a>.\u00a0 It is difficult to see how T-Mobile can make any more progress unless they start to proactively eliminate all their subscribers clam-shell Symbian OS \u201cburner phones\u201d used by luddites, privacy wonks, or malfeasant characters.<\/p>\n

We can expect that the world\u2019s networks will\u00a0progress along the adoption curve<\/a>\u00a0and IPv6 will become the majority of overall Internet traffic.\u00a0 If your organization has yet to start to plan for implementing IPv6, there is no time like the present!\u00a0 There is still quite a bit of work to do, especially when it comes to enterprise networks.\u00a0 Most of those organizations do not have IPv6 enabled internally across their internal networks and out to their access networks.\u00a0 Therefore, their end-users likely have IPv6 Internet connectivity on their personal mobile devices and at their homes, but not at work.\u00a0 For enterprises, the priority is to enable\u00a0dual-protocol Internet connectivity for their end-users by enabling it on their wired and wireless a…<\/a>.\u00a0 Enterprises can follow\u00a0well-established guidance<\/a>\u00a0for deploying IPv6 across their environments.<\/p>\n

We can expect that in the coming years more environments will progress to only using IPv6 and won\u2019t need to use IPv4 (other than to connect to legacy Internet devices).\u00a0 For example, content providers could run IPv6-only entirely in their data centers and expose only a single IPv4 Virtual IP (VIP) on the Internet-side of their application load balancer to preserve reachability for legacy IPv4 users.\u00a0 Some of the first organizations that might make the leap to IPv6-only could be\u00a0T-Mobile<\/a>,\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>,\u00a0Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0Cisco<\/a>, and\u00a0Microsoft<\/a>.\u00a0 Each of these companies have spoken publicly about their plans to go IPv6-only and have already done so in portions of their networks.<\/p>\n

In a couple of years, we may witness the cross-over point where IPv6 Internet traffic outweighs legacy IPv4 traffic.\u00a0 IPv6 traffic has been shown to be growing exponentially and is starting to have an effect on flattening out IPv4 growth.\u00a0 In a couple of years from now we will see a point where\u00a0IPv6 traffic volumes overtake IPv4 traffic volumes<\/a>\u00a0just like what LinkedIn experienced last year when they announced they crossed that tipping point.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the bigger question is, in another 6 years, will we still be talking about the need to adopt IPv6.\u00a0 By then IPv6 may virtually replace all IPv4 and be, simply, referred to as\u00a0the\u00a0<\/strong>Internet Protocol?<\/p>\n

Scott Hogg\u00a0(@ScottHogg<\/a>) is CTO of\u00a0HexaBuild.io<\/a>, an IPv6 consulting and training company.\u00a0 Scott is Chair Emeritus of the Rocky Mountain IPv6 Task Force (RMv6TF<\/a>) and authored the Cisco Press book on\u00a0IPv6 Security<\/a>.\u00a0 Follow HexaBuild on\u00a0Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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