IPv6 deployment monitoringGhent, 14 December 2010

Measurement campaign

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Part I• Motivation of the measurements• Measurement methodology• Deployment results• Conclusions

Part II• Reflection • Improving IPv6 deployment measurements• Discussion

Outline

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Part I

• Motivation of the measurements• Measurement methodology• Measured IPv6 deployment results• Conclusions

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IPv6 measurements

• Provide information on the progress of IPv6 deployment in Europe

• First measurement campaign in October/November 2009• Second measurement campaign in October/November 2010• This presentation presents results of the second measurement

campaign and compares these with the first measurement results• Make a statement to which extend the target set by the European

Commission to have 25 percent of the European citizens capable of accessing the IPv6 internet is met.

Note: measurement platform measures continuously in time.

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• Have webmasters place a script on their website that causes end users to connect to measurement server.

• Measurement server measures user’s IPv4 and IPv6 connectivity

Measurement Methodology

webbrowser

1. http request IPv4/IPv6

webpagewith TNO JAVA script

2. JAVA script

HTTP/PHP server MySQL serverand logging tool

web server

end user 3. PHP call

TNO IP monitoring server:- ipv4.test.ipv6monitoring.eu- ipv6.test.ipv6monitoring.eu- ipv4v6.test.ipv6monitoring.eu

PHP call via-IPv4 only-IPv6 only-dual stack

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15-11-2010

5-11-2009

• Size of sample set has increased significantly, also for smaller states• Participating websites has doubled from <15 to >30

Sample size

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IPv6/(IPv6+IPv4) [%]

time [a.u.]

a.u.

0

t1 t2 t3

IPv6/(IPv6+IPv4) [%]

time [a.u.]

a.u.

0

t4

start t0 (2009-07-22)

maximum window size

2 month sliding window

t5 t6t4-61days

t5-61days

t6-61days

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maximum window size

2 month sliding window

IPv6 deployment per EU member state

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maximum window size 2 month sliding window

• Bias exists towards academic and industry • Discrepancy between #samples and #internet

users between countries • 2% increase in IPv6 deployment

IPv6 deployment for the EU

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maximum window size 2 month sliding window

• Weighted results using internet penetration per country• 0.6% increase in IPv6 deployment

IPv6 deployment for the EU (weighted)

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IPv6 deployment trends per EU member state

BGDE

ES

FI

FRHULT

NL

UK

SI

SK

RO PT

SE DKCZ

BE

IE

AT

EEIT

LV

PL

LUMT CY

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with sub-domains: • www• IPv6

without sub-domains: • www• IPv6

Growth in IPv6 reachable websites

negligible!

Number of websites of ALEXA top 500 per country reachable on IPv6 (total of 13500 websites analyzed)

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'R'R

IPv6 < (IPv4 - 1)(below red line)

IPv6 > IPv4(above green line)

2009November

2010November

3.5% 2.6%

27% 49%

Via IPv6 websites can be experienced with the

same quality as via IPv4

Performance websites in the EU

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Conclusions

• IPv6 deployment has not significantly improved over the last year.

• IPv6 accessible content has not become available in a significant amount

• The fraction of unique users capable of accessing the Internet over IPv6 has grown less than a percent.

• The target set by the European Commission to have 25 percent of the European citizens capable of accessing the IPv6 internet is not met.

• Results are in line with outcomes from the interviews and questionnaires and bottleneck studies.

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Part II

• Reflecting on IPv6 measurements• Improving IPv6 deployment measurements• Discussion (separate agenda item)

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Reflecting on IPv6 deployment measurements

• Large number of measurement initiatives and consortia exist• Active measurements• Passive measurements• Technical vs. non-technical

• Common implementation problems• Uniformity of data set• Representativeness of data set• Poor business case• Privacy

• Different measures for IPv6 deployment• User oriented• Network oriented• Service, content, data oriented

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Measure once, analyze as often as you like

• Holistic approach improves efficiency and effectiveness of measurements by exchanging results between measurement groups and reuse of data and results

• Separation of data acquisition layer and shared interfaces for analysis module plug-ins.

A B C

A B C

A B C

commoninterface

layer

Framework basedIsolated

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Discussion

• Dealing with privacy

• Ownership, maintenance of, and contribution to data acquisition platform, (processed) data, (analyzed) results

• Feasibility