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Challenges inIPv6 Address Management

Paul WilsonDirector General

APNIC

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What is an IP Address?

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“On the Internet,nobody knows you’re a dog…”

by Peter Steiner, from The New Yorker, (Vol.69 (LXIX) no. 20)

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www.google.com

www.redhat.com

www.ebay.com

www.dogs.biz

www.apnic.net

www.gnso.org

www.ebay.com

www.doggie.com

www.ietf.org

216.239.39.99

66.187.232.50

66.135.208.101

209.217.36.32

202.12.29.20

199.166.24.5

66.135.208.88

198.41.3.45

4.17.168.6

“On the Internet…”you are nothing but an IP Address!

202.12.29.142

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What is an IP Address?

IPv4: 32 bits

232 = 4,294,967,296 addresses= 4 billion addresses

e.g. 202.12.29/24 (network address)202.12.29.142 (host address)

IPv6: 128 bits

2128 = 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,770,000,000= 340 billion billion billion billion addresses ?

e.g. 2001:0400::/32 (network address)2001:0400:3c00:af92:: (host address)

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What is an IP Address?

• Internet infrastructure addresses– Uniquely assigned to infrastructure elements– Globally visible to the entire Internet

• A finite “Common Resource”– Never “owned” by address users

• Managed globally under common policies– To ensure globally cohesive Internet– Policies developed by the Internet community– Implemented by cooperative RIR system

• Not dependent upon the DNS

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My Computer www.cernet.cn2001:0C00:8888:: 2001:0400::

www.cernet.cn ? 202.112.0.462001:0400::

IP addresses are not domain names…

The Internet

DNS

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Why IPv6?

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Rationale for IPv6

• IPv4 address space consumption– Now up to 10 years unallocated remaining– More if unused addresses can be reclaimed– These are today’s projections – reality will

definitely be different• Loss of “end to end” connectivity

– Widespread use of NAT due to ISP policiesand marketing

– Additional complexity and performancedegradation

– “Fog on the Internet”

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The NAT problem

10.0.0.1 ..2 ..3 ..4

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61.100.32.0/26(64 addresses)

61.100.32.1 ..2 ..3 ..4

ISP 61.100.0.0/16

The Internet

*AKA home router, ICS, firewall

NAT*

61.100.32.128(1 address)

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The NAT problem

Internet

10.0.0.1

61.100.32.128

NAT

?Extn 10

Phone Network

10 4567 9876

PABX

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How are IP Addresses managed?

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The early years: 1981 – 1992

“The assignment of numbers is also handled by Jon. If you aredeveloping a protocol or application that will require the use of alink, socket, port, protocol, or network number please contactJon to receive a number assignment.” (RFC 790)

1981:

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IANA address consumption

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The boom years: 1992 – 2001

“It has become clear that … these problems are likely to become criticalwithin the next one to three years.” (RFC1338)

“…it is [now] desirable to consider delegating the registration function to anorganization in each of those geographic areas.” (RFC 1366)

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IANA address consumption

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Global routing table

http://bgp.potaroo.net/as1221/bgp-active.html

CIDR deployment

“Dot-Com”boom

Projected routingtable growthwithout CIDR

Sustainablegrowth?

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Recent years: 2002 – 2005

2004:Establishment of theNumber Resource Organisation

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Unused

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IPv4 distribution – Global

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IPv4 distribution – Regional

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IPv4 Allocations – Global top 10

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IPv4 allocations – CN

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IPv4 lifetime

http://bgp.potaroo.net/ipv4

IANA allocations

RIR allocations

Addresses routed

Historical Data Projection

Reclamation?

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Regional Internet Registries

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What are RIRs?

• Regional Internet Registries– Industry self-regulatory bodies– Non-profit, neutral and independent– Open membership-based structures

• Internet resource allocation and registration– Primarily, IP addresses – IPv4 and IPv6

• Policy development and coordination– Open Policy Meetings and processes

• Training and outreach– Training courses, seminars, conferences…

• Publications– Newsletters, reports, web site

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What is APNIC?

• RIR for Asia Pacific region– Established 1993, Tokyo– 1010 members in 45 of 62 AP economies– 45 staff, 18 nationality/language groups

• National Internet Registry structure– All NIR follow same policies– Very close cooperation with CNNIC and others

• Other activities– Liaison: IETF, APT, PITA, APEC, ISP-A’s– ITU Sector Member– UN ECOSOC consultative status– Deployment of rootservers…

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Internet infrastructure support

• ‘Anycast’ root serverdeployments– Substantial funding

by APNIC– Working with root

operators (F, I, K, M)– 10+ deployed to 2004– Work in progress

• AU (K), JP (K), IN,SG, KH, PK, CN

• Beijing– 90% of queries now

handled locallyhttp://www.apnic.net/services/rootserver

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KL

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What is APNIC?

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IP Address Policies

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IP address management policies

• Fundamental technical principles– Provider-based addressing– Objective demonstrated need– Conservation, aggregation and registration

• Administrative policies– “Common resources” – not owned– Management in common interest– First-come-first-served allocation

• Constantly evolving through policy process– By consensus of Internet operator community– Process is open to all interested parties

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RIR policy coordination

OPEN

TRANSPARENT‘BOTTOM UP’

Anyone can participate

All decisions & policies documented& freely available to anyone

Internet community proposesand approves policy

Need

DiscussEvaluate

Implement Consensus

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Global policy coordination

• Local actions have global impact– Consumption or wastage of common resource– Global routing table growth

• Bad behaviour can isolate entire networks andcountries

– E.g. Spam and hacking• Inconsistent policies also cause global effects

– E.g. Fragmentation of IP address space– If widespread, Internet routing is fragmented– End of global end-end routability

• Address policies must be globally consistent– RIRs work hard to ensure this

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Recent proposals

• IPv6 reservations for all countries– Based on fair measure (population)– Could help to ensure fairness in future– Technical impacts need to be studied

• IPv6 allocations to all countries– Strong risk of diverging policies– 250 different policy systems?– Likely to seriously impact global Internet

• Parallel allocation systems– Competing systems may exhaust limited IP

address resource– Implications should be studied

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Summary

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IP address policy

• A global internet needs global policy– RIRs and NRO achieve this– 10+ years of successful experience

• Policy fragmentation– Internet fragmentation, loss of global routing

• IPv4 has a long history– Result of early allocations is unfair distribution– RIRs have ensured that current allocation policies

are fair to all• IPv6 is being managed better from the start

– RIR system is responsible and fair– Policy will continue to evolve with the Internet

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IPv6 – Internet for everything!

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IPv6 – Summary

• The good news…– IPv6 is available now!– IPv6 addresses are very easy to obtain

• The not so good news…– Complexity: cost and learning curve– Demand? Do users want it? “Chicken and Egg”

• The reality: A long transition– “Changing engines mid-flight”– Long process – 10 years to complete?

• The critical message: Start now!

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Thank You