IPv6 News

Data center operator Phoenix NAP announced on Tuesday that global carrier Tinet has deployed a Point of Presence within its Arizona facility.
Complete info at TheWhir, Benzinga and AmericanBankingNews.

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Ixia, a leading, global provider of converged IP test systems, was used by Isocore in a successful demonstration of the Alcatel-Lucent 7750 Service Router (SR) acting as a broadband network gateway (BNG) for media-rich residential service delivery.
Complete info at TradingMarkets, iStockAnalyst and Live-PR.

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Telemanagement recently took a trip to AT&T’s Global Network Operations Center in New Jersey, where we met with Dave Belanger, AT&T chief scientist and VP AT&T Labs, and Ed Amoroso, AT&T’s Senior Vice President and Chief Security Officer.
Complete info at Telemagement.

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You’ve probably heard of IPv6 by now if you’re watching Internet technology at all, but even with new urgency to its deployment, there aren’t many people saying much about it. There’s a big problem with that.
Over a decade ago, Internet architects realized that the current Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) used for identifying systems on [...]

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The Internet Routing Registry (IRR) is a globally distributed routing information database that consists of several databases run by various organisations. Network operators use the IRR to publish their routing policies and routing announcements in a way that allows other network operators to make use of the data. In addition to making Internet topology visible, the IRR is used by network operators to look up peering agreements, determine optimal policies and to configure their routers.

Last month we looked at the completeness of the RIPE Routing Registry (RIPE RR). The encouraging results were presented in an earlier post on CircleID: How Complete is the RIPE Routing Registry?

This month, we wanted to find out how accurate the data in the RIPE RR really is; how well does the data match the information in the BGP routing tables? The more accurate the data in the RR the more useful it is for other operators.

The image below shows the percentage of route objects (for IPv4 address space; shown in blue) and route6 objects (for IPv6 address space; shown in red) in the RIPE RR that match a real route in the BGP routing table. In this context, a “match” means either the exact prefix is registered, or a number of less or more specific prefixes where the total matches the prefix announced in real life are registered.

For IPv4 route objects, the percentage is very high and stable for the last few years — between 85% and 90%. This means that almost all organisations that receive an ASN from the RIPE NCC and that originate a route in BGP have a matching route object registered in the RIPE Routing Registry.

For IPv6, the numbers are a little lower at 80%, but it’s growing steadily over time.

The high number of matches between data in BGP and in the RIPE Routing Registry suggests that operators use the RR for operational purposes. It would be interesting to see if not just the prefixes but also the routing policy matches, but that is more complicated and would require a different look at the data.

For more details, please refer to Interesting Graph – How Accurate is the RIPE Routing Registry.

Written by Mirjam Kuehne

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A group of internet engineers and technical staff is helping the Middle East to prepare for new internet technology that will ensure there is enough room for millions more internet addresses as the region’s virtual world expands.
After laying the original groundwork in Dubai to form the Middle East Network Operators’ Group (Menog), the group has [...]

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APNIC, which is an administration authority of IP addresses (RIR: Regional Internet Registry) and responsible for the Asia-Pacific region, made an announcement about a rapidly decreasing stock of IPv4 addresses.
IANA, which supervises RIRs, currently has a stock of seven blocks of IPv4 addresses. A block, which is called “/8,” is equivalent to 16,777,216 addresses. In [...]

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Pentagon pressuring suppliers to use IPv6 products they sell on their own networks, Web sites.
Complete info at NetworkWorld, IT World and CIO.

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The new IPv6 TechNet Forum (http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-us/ipv6/threads) provides a space for you to ask questions and comment on issues with IPv6 in Windows. This is a TechNet forum, so there is a slight server/IT focus, but we welcome discussions on IPv6 application development as well. Best! Chris Palmer Microsoft IPv6 Program Manager…(read more)

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Erion’is pleased to announce an initial IPv6 training schedule for 2011. At the time of writing, Erion has courses scheduled in the USA, UK and Slovenia. Further dates will be announced in 2011.

10th Jan 2011, Implementing IPv6, 4 days, Ljubjana, Slovenia
15th Feb 2011, Implementing IPv6, 4 days, Fremont, California, USA
28th Mar 2011, Introduction to IPv6, [...]

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