IPv6 in 2009: rebels lead the way
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- “US firms may dominate the market for equipment such as routers serving as the infrastructure for the current IPv4-based Internet. But Japan, China and South Korea plan to change that.
“They’ll jointly develop the next-generation IPv6 technology and, ‘By working together, the three countries aim to take the lead in developing technologies for a world in which all equipment is connected to the Internet’ says Japan`s Nihon Keizai Shimbun.”
The above is a quote from p2pnet item which is still up, but the Shimbun post isn’t, which is hardly surprising given that it dates back to 2003.
The December, 2004, Xinhua story, with the pic on the right, is also still online. The caption says the graph charts a family, “living via the next generation of the Internet in Chinese. The China Education and Research Net 2 (CERNET2), a backbone network based on IPv6, the next-generation Internet protocol, was put into operation on Saturday.
Then in 2006, “Rep. Tom Davis, R-Va., said federal agencies will play a key role in leading the country’s transition to the upgraded network known as Internet Protocol version 6, or IPv6,” said Government Executive. “Failing to do so would place the United States in a ‘back-seat position’ in the development of the Internet, he said, as China and Europe aggressively move forward with the new standard.”
Three years on, “In December 2008, despite celebrating its 10-year anniversary as a Standards Track protocol, IPv6 was only in its infancy in terms of general world-wide deployment,” says the Wikipedia, continuing »»»
A recent study by Google indicates that penetration is still less than one percent of Internet traffic in any country. The leaders are Russia (0.76%), France (0.65%), Ukraine (0.64%), Norway (0.49%), and the United States (0.45%).
Although Asia leads in terms of absolute deployment numbers, the relative penetration is smaller (e.g., China: 0.24%). IPv6 is implemented on all major operating systems in use in commercial, business, and home consumer environments. According to the study, Mac OS leads in IPv6 penetration of 2.44%, followed by Linux (0.93%) and Windows Vista (0.32%).
IpV6 support
However, one organisation is forging strongly ahead with plans to make IPv6 real.
It’s run by a tiny handful of Net innovators, to the continuing chagrin of former Bush administrators and the major Hollywood studios and corporate music record labels, which have collectively spent hundreds of millions of dollars and gone deeply into debt with countless high-priced political IOUs in fruitless attempts to crush it.
The organisation, if you can call it that, is The Pirate Bay.
“We’re adding native support for IPv6 to our system,” Brokep blogged yesterday, going on »»»
First up, the trackers have got some newly added v6 support. Our name servers are also responding on v6 and the website will soon be available on v6 as well.
All users are encouraged to learn more about IPv6 and to try to use it instead of IPv4. It’s especially good for torrent traffic as there will be no issues with port forwarding or NAT!
Also, we would love for the developers of the great torrent clients out there to have a dialog about IPv6 with the team that develops our tracker. It would be really good to cooperate around this!
It would.
“O and I love IPv6 i use it though a tunnel and for some reason can ping6 ipv6.google.com faster than ping www.google.com go figure,” says BlueMatt0 in a comment.
“Very nice! 
” – says sega01. “I noticed that Opentracker has some recent commits about IPv6, so I will have to give it a try. The nameservers don’t have AAAA records yet on the root servers, but I can get them off of your nameservers. Glad that Transmission (my favorite BT client) recently got IPv6 support. I will have to try getting Opentracker going on my 486 now 
. Thank you all so much!”
“Hurricane Electric also provides tunnels (http://tunnelbroker.net),” according to lomendil. “I don’t *think* they work behind a NAT, but if you don’t mind a little configuration they are pretty solid.”
http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/ticket/1111, posts DarkLamer.
“Nice … and decent latency on v6, too,” says GKG. “now all we need is working torrent clients 
”
“You can access through ipv6 if with this command in Windows XP and Vista,” notes Falconix – netsh int ipv6 6to4 set relay 192.88.99.1 enabled 1440.”
Stay tuned.
January , 2009
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