Policy Options to Promote IPv6 Deployment

Internet Week Guyana/LACNIC On The Move12 October 2017kevon@lacnic.net

The new, larger version of the Internet: IPv6

• Video url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Uwjt32NvVA

Trends

Available IPv4 /8s In Each RIR

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Percentage of Members with both IPv4 and IPv6 in each RIR

35.50%

54.10% 55.48%

89.41%

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Source:NRO

Measurements and references for IPv6 deployment

• LACNIC Labs

• ICAv6http://portalipv6.lacnic.net/wp-content/caf-lacnic/CAF-LACNIC-IPv6-Deployment-Social-Economic-Development-in-LAC.pdf

IPv6 Adoption in the Caribbean

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IPv6 Availability in the Caribbean

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LACNICCaribbean- No.ofIPv6Allocations(/48-EndUsers;/32-ISPs)

EndUsers/48=1,208,925,819,614,629,174,706,176 ISPs/32=79,228,162,514,264,337,593,543,950,336

IPs in GuyanaGuyana:• Population:735,000(est.Jul-2016)• MobileSubscriptors:550,000(est.Dec-2015)~75%• InternetPenetration:305,000(est.Mar-2017)~40% Internet Addresses: • IPv4: 60,000 (Today) ~ 5.1 users have to share 1 Internet address (avg). • IPv6: 3,600000,000000,000000,000000,000000 • Up to 17 Million subscribers

Policy problem(s)

• Despite availability, IPv6 is not being deployed locally which may be attributed to a perceived lack of demand, low awareness, and/or other factors.

• Testing of IPv6 has occurred locally but IPv6 traffic was not permanently enabled.

• Presently, Internet users remain vulnerable because of a lack of traceability of IPs due to excessive CGNAT.

• This situation, if left unattended, will create significant obstacles to Internet growth.

Case for Action• Consideration 1: There is insufficient measurement and

research on planning phases, which makes it difficult to determine the real status quo of IPv6 adoption

• Consideration 2: Measured end-user internet behavioursusually cover accessed Internet services (e.g. Alexa stats), but not enough is known about user communities and potential Internet developments (gaming, next-gen application development, cloud-based enterprise services). The scope for measuring content and end-user activities could be adjusted

• Consideration 3: Nevertheless, low deployment stats require multi-actor interventions judging Y-O-Y trends and understood remits of ISPs

Caution

• Bottom-up, open, transparent policy process to enhance trust

• Avoid unnecessary “administrative burden” to existing ISPs (state requirements for PTTNS players as prescribed under Telecommunications, Fair Trade and Company laws)

• Avoid having strategic decisions only contemplate financial/accounting reasoning

• Understand policy and legal framework and particularly the need to be flexible

Policy objective• Measurement and monitoring of IPv6 deployment• Exponential improvement of IPv6 deployed and available to

the end-user• Enabling environment to facilitate:

– Regular end-user QoS– High-end user activities– Potential investment opportunities for Guyana-based

Internet services available globally (could target the Guyanese diaspora in the first instance)

• Influence IPv6 uptake by stimulating awareness and demand

Profile of actions

Compendium of policy and legal instruments in the region

Country Authority Instrument Scope Target

Mexico Instituto Federal deTelecomunicaciones (IFT)

AdvisoryCouncilRecommendationof8nov 2016

Regulator andpublicsector

Internet ofThings(IoT)

Cuba Ministerio deComunicaciones ParliamentaryresolutionNos.181/2016;140/2008

National Gov’t &nationalnetworkefficiency;importationofgoodsusingIP

CostaRica Ministerio deCienca,Tecnología yTelecomunicaciones (MICITT)

Directive N° 049-MICITTof 2013

Publicsector Gov’tnetworkefficiency

Colombia Ministerio deTecnologías delaInformación ylasComunicaciones (MINTIC)

ParliamentaryresolutionNo.2710of2017

Publicsector Gov’tnetworkefficiency;procurement

Ecuador Ministerio deTelecomunicaciones ySociedad delaInformación

MinisterialdecreeNo.680of2012

Publicsector Gov’tnetworkefficiency;enable.ecwebsites

DominicanRepublic

Instituto Dominicano deTelecomunicaciones(INDOTEL)

ManagerialCouncilResolutionNo.021-15

Publicsector Gov’tnetworkefficiency;procurement;awareness

Peru Secretaría deGobierno Digital(SEGDI)

SupremeDecreeNº081-2017-PCM

Publicsector Gov’tnetworkefficiency;e-gov;procurement

IPv6 Mobilisation• An IPv6 Task Force (TF) is a not-for-profit working

group that coordinates efforts to promote the deployment of IPv6 in a country or region

• True IPv6 TFs must be multistakeholder (ISPs, IXP, government, regulator, academia, OEMs, etc.)

• There are TFs in Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Uruguay, Panama, Cuba, Mexico and Peru among others

• FLIP6 and LAC IPv6 Task Force: http://portalipv6.lacnic.net/en/flip6-and-lac-ipv6-tf/

IPv6 Awareness Activities in the region

Country OrganisersMexico UniversidadNacionalAutónomadeMéxico(UNAM)

Venezuela UniversidadCentroccidental LisandroAlvarado(UCLA)

Dominican Republic UniversidadAPECArgentina University Interconnection Network(RIU)andISOC

Argentina

Peru UniversidaddelaPacíficaandISOCPeru

CostaRica ISOCCostaRica

http://www.worldipv6launch.org

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