IPv6: Application perspective

Zaid AliChairman/President SFBAY ISOC

www.sfbayisoc.org

About SFBAY ISOC

• Founded Feb 2009 to support ISOC mission• ISOC (founded 1992)– Internet is for everyone– More than 80 chapters around the world– 44 thousand individual members– Individuals who want to influence the future of

the Internet– Org home for IETF & IAB.

SFBAY ISOC Initiatives

• Broadband technology program (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009)

• IPv6 technology • Trust/identity initiative • Open Standards • Cyber crime • Distance Education • Silicon Valley corporate involvement • gTLD• INET • IPv6 Panel 2010

http://www.sfbayisoc.org/join

The IPv4 and IPv6 world

• Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4)– First developed for the original ARPANET in 1978– Deployed globally with organic growth of the Internet as an experiment– Total of 4 billion IP addresses available (232)– Well entrenched and used by every ISP and hosting company to connect customers to

the Internet– Allocated based on documented need

• Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)– Design started in 1993 when IETF forecasts showed IPv4 depletion between 2010 and

2017– Completed, tested, and available for production since 1999– Total of 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 IP addresses available

(2128). – Used and managed similar to IPv4

IPv4 Utilization

*as of 3 February 2011 (courtesy of

ARIN)

The /8 landscape

courtesy of ARIN

• Each RIR received its last /8 from IANA on 3 February 2011.

• The IANA free pool of IPv4 addresses has reached 0%.

• While each RIR currently has IPv4 addresses to allocate, it is impossible to predict when each RIR will run out.

• As of today ARIN has roughly 5 /8 available.

IPv4: The situation room

IPv6: The situation room

courtesy of APNIC

IPv6: The network growth

courtesy of RIPE: http://v6asns.ripe.net/v/6

IPv4 and IPv6 routing tables

• Do you have a plan?

SaaS/Applications – Ready??

• How does IPv6 readiness impact my business?

• Do I have my key technical staff trained?

• How do I get there?

SaaS/Applications – Basic questions

• Start with a simple plan!• Setup a Tunnel broker.• Implement IPv6 on your LAN. Learn from it!• Push your transit providers – Tunnel if need be!• Put 1 web server – experiment traffic with AAAA.• Start to slowly turn on v6 in application stack.• Bring Name Server to v6.• Configure BGP/OSPF etc.

SaaS/Applications – Formulate a plan

• Cost!!!– Equipment– Staff training– Losing out to competitors (Mobile explosion)– Poor performance over time with NAT alternatives– Business continuity

Consequences of waiting

World IPv6 Day

• June 8th 2011– Google, Facebook, Yahoo!, Akamai, Limelight,

Meebo, Mozilla, Juniper etc• 24 hour test flight.• http://isoc.org/wp/worldipv6day/

• Quite behind – Load balancers/Content switches– Lack of dual stack support– IPv6 support mostly in software– Must do IPv6 in Hardware (ASIC, L3 TCAM)– CPE upgrade/changed– Opportunity to pack new features and differentiate– Vendors need to drive IPv6 innovation, not wait for

customer demand!

Vendors

Thank You