Survey results for the recent “ARIN-CAIDA IPv6 Penetration Survey” is now available from the following link:
http://wiki.icons.apnic.net/display/IPv6/Home
IPv6 penetration statistics
Worldwide IPv6 penetration survey result – ARIN and CAIDA- October
Here I am, in Taipei eating breakfast in the hotel lounge being barraged by U.S. election coverage on CNN. Two days to go and chatter about the maverick continues. Earlier in the morning as I was preparing for my day I came across a story featuring another maverick – from one of our customers downunder, Adelaide-based ISP, Internode ( http://www.internode.on.net/ ).
Almost one year ago I was in Canberra speaking at the Australia IPv6 Summit when I first met the people from Internode. What was surprising to me at the time was that this smaller ISP was taking the lead in Australia on IPv6. My experience in other parts of Asia such as in Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Philippines, etc.. has been that it is the larger ISPs who lead the charge in bringing IPv6 to their country. It is usually them who have the budget and the labs to do the early testing and trials… they are the ones with the 12 – 24 month network migration plans and the flexibility to get IPv6 operational experience before they are forced into the situation.
Had I known Australia’s ISP landscape better, I wouldn’t have been surprised. On our 3+ hour drive back from Canberra to Sydney, Kevin Karp from IPv6Now ( http://www.ipv6now.com.au/ ) explained to me that Simon Hackett has been quite the maverick himself. From the start of Internode he’s been pushing the envelope with services keeping the big boys on their toes. IPv6 it seems was a logical step for Hackett who isn’t afraid to crack “the chicken and egg” problem. Read this story about another maverick – it presents an unorthodox but logical view: