[afripv6-discuss] What have you done for IPv6 lately, since the 1st of January, 2013?

[SM]

Hi Hisham,
At 05:48 17-02-2013, Hisham wrote:
>This email will be sent on the 15th of every month, to share what 
>has changed within this month,
>
>be it a prefix being advertised, a site turning on AAAA, to larger 
>national and/or regional projects.

Thank you for the bringing up the topic.

>  The first of these workshops was held in 2011 in Dakar, 
> http://dakar42.icann.org/node/26999

I read one of the Dakar presentations last year.  From 
http://dakar42.icann.org/meetings/dakar2011/presentation-ipv4-ipv6-transition-27oct11-en.pdf

    "According to the survey carried out with ISPs, none of them is involved in
     IPv6 experimentation with a view to moving towards commercial IPv6 based
     services."

It has been said that there wasn't any customer demand for 
IPv6.  Maybe it is because customers asking about IPv6 connectivity 
are ignored as the customer-facing end of the ISPs do not know 
anything about IPv6.

 From 
http://dakar42.icann.org/meetings/dakar2011/presentation-ipv4-ipv6-transition-27oct11-en.pdf 
Mark Elkins said:

   "So, Mauritius, if you are still looking, I would love to see all 
your work in
    its finest, goriest details as well, please.

    The Mauritian government probably has done one of the nicest 
presentations in
    IPv6 migration."

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.icta.mu.                   IN      AAAA

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.icta.mu.            85868   IN      AAAA    2001:4290:11:200::20


;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 12577
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.gov.mu.                    IN      AAAA


;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 59724
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0


;; QUESTION SECTION:
;ncb.gov.mu.                    IN      AAAA

; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0


;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.orange.mu.                 IN      AAAA

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
orange.mu.              950     IN      SOA     dns.intnet.mu. 
hostmaster.intnet.mu. 2013100106 21600 3600 604800 86400


;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 50509
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.emtel-ltd.com.             IN      AAAA

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
emtel-ltd.com.          7200    IN      SOA     NS17.WORLDNIC.com. 
namehost.WORLDNIC.com. 108052609 10800 3600 604800 3600


;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 11497
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;chili.mu.                      IN      AAAA

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
chili.mu.               86358   IN      SOA     ns1.yessolutions.biz. 
info.yessolutions.biz. 2012121600 86400 7200 3600000 86400

The presentations are always nice.  However, there isn't much being 
done in practice.  www.icta.mu is at least IPv6-enabled.  The same 
cannot be said of the few other sites I looked at.

Telecom Plus first announced 2001:4290::/32 in November 2006.  The 
first time IPv6 traffic originated from 2001:4290::/32 was in January 
2011.  Emtel Limited first announced 2001:4248::/32 in April 
2008.  There hasn't been any IPv6 traffic from 2001:4248::/32.  The 
Mauritius Internet Exchange Point has never announced 
2001:43f8:270::/48.  Data Communications Ltd has never announced 
2c0f:f898::/32.  Africa Digital Bridges Networks Ltd has never 
announced 2c0f:fe68::/32.

Regards,
-sm