IPv6 Policies & Lessons

for Digital Europe Jiří Průša (CZ.NIC Association), Brussels, 24.04.2014

The Digital Agenda for Europe sets up the goal „Every European to be Digital“ .

The number of Internet users as well as connected devices (M2M) is rapidly growing. Besides users, more and more machines are connected to the Internet, too.

IP addresses represent basic building blocks of the Internet.

Introduction to IPv6

IPv4 pool is exhausted: there are no free blocks in Europe and in Asia!

Answer? IPv6! Network

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Web-Sites

Access Networks

Involve IPv6 in your policy documents (e.g. regional strategies) and national legislation!

Always demand IPv6 if you provide public money for IT project!

Always require IPv6 support in RFP documentation when replacing infrastructure (servers, routers etc.), looking for internet connectivity provider or web-hosting.

Involve IPv6 support as an evaluating criterion into the best (the highest quality) web contests.

How to encourage IPv6 deployment?

IPv6 Policies in the Czech Republic

8 June 2009 : Government Resolution on IPv6 • IPv6 in public tenders on network infrastructure components (30/6/2009)

• Ensure availability of government websites via IPv4 and IPv6 (1/1/2011)

20 March 2012 : Digital Czech 2.0 Strategy • Wider government support for IPv6 deployment

• Government policy for DNSSEC support

• Internet Governance rules: preferring self-regulation

18 December 2013 : Government Resolution on DNSSEC & IPv6 • IPv6 and DNSSEC in all relevant public tenders (1/1/2014)

• Availability of mail servers via IPv6 (1/3/2015)

19 December 2013 : Guidelines for data traffic management • National telecom regulator declared IPv6 as a part of net-neutrality

IPv6 = net neutrality!

Impact Assessment of IPv6 Policies

Web servers Name servers Mail servers

7/12 3/14 7/12 3/14 7/12 3/14

Ministries 35,7 % 57,1 % 64,3 % 64,3 % 35,7 % 57,1 %

Other govern. bodies 50,0 % 81,8 % 58,3 % 72,7 % 33,3 % 45,5 %

Regional governments 14,3 % 15,4 % 64,3 % 69,2 % 14,3 % 23,1 %

Municipalities 7,3 % 31,1 % 43,9 % 59,2 % 2,9 % 7,3 %

Average for .cz domain 13,5 % 20,2 % 49,8 % 55,7 % 9,6 % 15,1 %

Legislation has the power to support IPv6 deployment – public administration reach significantly higher support than is the national average and several times higher than the private sector.

Involvement of IPv6 criterion in various „the best website“ competitions has a similar effect with minimum effort!

IPv6 deployment in Europe

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How to encourage IPv6 deployment?

Based on the pilot project in the Czech Republic, the GEN6 project expanded IPv6 readiness benchmarking to other countries.

In order to compare the comparable, the methodology for collecting URLs was set.

Benchmarking involves only government institutions at all levels: national (ministries, legislative bodies, judicial authorities), regional: representatives of regions (only in some countries), local: largest cities in each country

Data available for: the Czech Republic, Estonia, Germany, Greece, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Slovenia, Slovakia, Spain, Turkey.

In total: 2 400 websites analysed (393/137/1870)

IPv6: Government benchmarking

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WWW DNS servers Mail servers

Conclusions

IPv6 represents a key condition for creating Connected Continent and enabling every European to be digital!

IPv6 becomes not only a technical issue, but also is related with social impacts and policies aspects.

Always take IPv6 into account if you are planning new information system and services or providing public money!

Contact

jiri.prusa@nic.cz