North America not interested in IP V6

Thu Jul 31 13:04:25 UTC 2003

Ronald van der Pol wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 12:30:25 -0400, Marshall Eubanks wrote:
> 
> > > I'd be more interested in seeing how many customer connections
> > > are using IPV6.
> > 
> > This question came up in discussions at IETF-57, without a 
> good answer. 
> 
> I count 728 /48 entries in the RIPE database. These should correspond
> to "sites" or customers (a couple of /48s are allocated to IXs).

The bad news here, or actually good news, is that many ISP's don't
register their client /48's. The SixXS project for instance
has 515 subnets currently given out to it's users.
We've put a REFER in the remark line to our own whois database
which contains up to date and full informations.
This is done because delegations can and will change quite a lot.

Many other tunnelbrokers exist, check for example freenet6, ipv6.he.net
and xs26, who apparently have loads of delegations, these are
not to be found in the registries either.

Next to that many people still use 6bone space...

Greets,
 Jeroen