[LINK] Fwd: Expert Panel: The Seven Stages of IPv6 Adoption

[stephen at melbpc.org.au]

Karl writes,

> felt that the difference between six months and 500 billion years
> was worth mentioning. Seems significant to me..

Indeed, though this IPv6 trinkets site claims just over two years left.

www.ipv6forum.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=51

Whatever, roll on IPv6.  Although, unhappily, VERY few important world
organizations seem anywhere near IPv6 ready, just 4 days ago. See here:

An IPv6 Status Survey:  http://www.mrp.net/IPv6_Survey.html 

"During a recent meeting at Fermilab, Ron Broersma of Defense Research 
and Engineering Network (DREN) included a scorecard in his presentation 
that tried to quantify how well major organisations were embracing IPv6. 

I thought that this was such a fine idea that I’ve decided to replicate 
it here ...

While some ISPs might argue that their networks support IPv6 (and that 
they use it every day) because they have an IPv6 prefix that is announced 
to the world I tend to believe in “eating ones own dog food” and so it’s 
more important to be seen to be using it in some meaningful way rather 
than potentially have a single host generate a suitable BGP announcement.

Therefore like Ron I have identified some services and use them as an 
indicator of usage.


1.Web server accessible via IPv6;

2.Email deliverable via IPv6;

3.DNS name servers accessible via IPv6;

4.An NTP service accessible via IPv6; and

5.A Jabber service accessible via IPv6


Partial points are awarded if you have an accessible “www.ipv6.$domain” 
site. I also now look for “ipv6.$domain” too but that’s the limit. I 
think a “normal” user would give up after trying them, assuming they even 
try.

Similarly partial points are also awarded if a secondary MX supports IPv6 
but the primary does not although in reality an IPv6 only host can 
communicate with the domain if the secondary is accessible via IPv6 and 
the secondary can then use some other method to reach the primary to 
deliver the email.

Partial points are also awarded if some but not all DNS name servers have 
IPv6 addresses. I attempt to check if it is the organisation who has the 
IPv6 accessible DNS servers or if it’s just a secondary (this falls down 
if the organisation uses a different domain for it’s services). 

The numbers in the cell are the organisation’s DNS servers with IPv6 
access, total IPv6 accessible DNS servers and finally total number of DNS 
servers.

For a Jabber service (xmpp-client), this is tested by looking for an 
appropriate SRV DNS resource record. If there isn’t a record then the 
cell will be gray (status unknown). If there is only IPv4 addresses 
listed then the cell is red (fail). If it’s inaccessible, possibly caused 
by a firewall, that results in an orange (partial) cell and finally if 
the service is accessible via IPv6 then success is claimed and the cell 
is green. 

For a NTP service I look for a AAAA record on “ntp.$domain” and if it 
exists I attempt to perform a “ntpdate” to it. If the stratum looks OK 
then you get a green cell.

A gray cell indicates some, unspecified, problem with the data collection.

The list should update weekly and suggestions for additions are welcome.

There is also a CGI script to test a domain that is not already in the
list at:  http://www.mrp.net/cgi-bin/ipv6-status.cgi (end quote)

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And, following the above is an extensive list of important world bodies.

Perhaps of interest, of the 40 Australian Universities, Monash U is the
only only anywhere near ready (3 green cell results of five) and of the
thousand (?) listed, just 4 major world organizations receive all green 
cell ratings, one of them being www.aussiehq.com.au 

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Cheers,
Stephen