IPv6 in Africa. Adiel A. Akplogan. CEO, AfriNIC IICA Workshop. 22, September 2011

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1 IPv6 in Africa Adiel A. Akplogan CEO, AfriNIC IICA Workshop 22, September 2011

2 About us AfriNIC Internet Numbers Registry function Other Services to the community Manage IPv4 & IPv6 Manage ASN (2 and 4 byte) Manage rdns tree for IP prefixes in use by African Operators Provide a Public WHOIS Contribute to IP address Management Global Policy development Biannual Internet Protocol meeting: 13 so far in 10 countries Internet Infrastructure reinforcement development in Africa: IXP DNS Root Server copy Anycast service to support cctlds in Africa Support to academic Networks Training: more than 100 training sessions in 45 countries around Africa since Page 2

3 Some data about IPv6 in Africa!"#$%&'()*+,-%.'/012'--% We still have a lot to do to catch-up in terms of deployment of IPv6. Currently 4 th regionally. 33 counties has at least 1 IPv6 allocation. Asia & Pacific Latin America Europe & Russia All countries Africa North America '*"-$%& ',"$)%& '+"!)%& ''"$(%& '(")*%&!"#$%& '()*"+,,-./0-12"34-567"81"+948./" 0.00% 2.00% 4.00% 6.00% 8.00% 10.00% 12.00% 14.00% 16.00% 18.00% %#!" %!!" $$&" South Africa Zambia 60 Other 40 $#!" $!!" #!"!$%" Ghana Zimbabwe 20 0 Kenya Mauritius #!" Uganda Nigeria Page 3!"!" %!!&" %!!#" %!!'" %!!(" %!!)" %!!*" %!$!" %!$$" Tanzania Egypt

4 Why is IPv6 so important? Support the grow your IP network and your costumers. Business case for IPv6 deployment?!stay in business!"!stay in business!" Restoring the end-to-end paradigm for Internet communication P2P technology is well-established as an efficient and popular solution for many applications (e.g. VoIP, file sharing, IPTV) Page 4

5 What about IPv4? Page 5 The central Pool exhausted in February Each RIR got 1 /8 for their allocations APNIC runs out of IPv4 Important increase in IPv4 allocations in AfriNIC region. More than 100% increase in the past 12 months. Africa has the fastest Internet users growth in the world. NAT is hurting the growth need to move to proper infrastructure and Public IP.

6 Why is IPv6 important for us in Africa? Why do we have to care for IPv6 when we have not finished deploying IPv4? It is important to bear in mind that the Internet works on a point to point peering agreement basis: Page 6 You have to announce your prefixes to run a network! And at some point in time the default will be IPv6 for the major players if you are not already testing IPv6 you may find yourself in a situation where you would not be able to announce IPv4 (at a reasonable cost) as service levels for this will gradually erode over time!"

7 AfriNIC/Africa and IPv6 Since our setup in 2004 we have been engaged in a wide-scale program to raise awareness and build capacity in IPv6 (we have invested more than 1M USD in these activities over the past 5 years). In 2005 there were only 4 networks in Africa that had IPv6 prefixes and most of them were not visible to the Internet. Today we have more than 240 networks with IPv6 prefixes assigned! 10.5 % of publicly visible networks in Africa are IPv6 ready, compared to the global average of 8.7% (Thats a positive news showing that African networks are growing and ready for new challenges!) Page 7

8 What do we have to do to improve the situation? Globally we all need to Push for more actions from Operators (Training, Planning and implementation Dual-stack, allowing users to access v6 network) Be innovative and explore the opportunities of developing application that can directly benefit from IPv6 and its features. Involve Research and Education community into the game. Page 8

9 What do we have to do to improve the situation? Governments/Regulators need to lead by the example, making sure that: their own internet based services are IPv6 ready (early adopters) The public is aware and educated on the transition Appropriate policies are developed to foster national transition to IPv6. Education is the critical aspect of this long journey ahead of us! Page 9

10 To Conclude! It is still time to act! We have to look into this IPv4/IPv6 transition as a responsibly on us to safeguard the growth of the Internet, setting the path for a brighter socioeconomical development of our region. Page 10

11 Thank you Page 11