[rpd] Statistics on IPV4 allocation in Africa as of 2016

[Amreesh Phokeer]

Hello S.M,

Thanks for raising the question.

I think this makes much sense, may be we can also make a subtle difference between adoption
and readiness. Adoption can be measured through deployment and usage, readiness is more qualitative
and can be answered through surveys, for e.g. do the operators have IPv6 ready networks equipment,
how IPv6-saavy are they? What percentage of CPEs are IPv6 compatible?

>> - IPv6 allocation/assignments in Whois
>> - Route6 objects in the IRR
>> - Routing policy in the IRR
>> - IPv6 prefixes in the routing table
>> - IP6.arpa sub-domains delegation
>> - DNS over IPv6
>> - Org web site over IPv6
>> - Etc


To this may I also add:

DNS
- How many DNS resolvers in Africa are requesting AAAA records
- Prevalence of AAAA records on African ccTLD zones
- How much of DNS queries are done over IPv6

Topology
- How are the different ASes in the region connected to each other over IPv6
- How much IPv6 traffic is going through African IXPs

On the edge
- can we measure end-hosts IPv6 capabilities?
- can we measure usage of tunnelling mechanisms



—
Amreesh

> On Jun 28, 2016, at 2:40 PM, sm+afrinic at elandsys.com wrote:
> 
> Hi Mukom, Amreesh, Logan,
> At 06:30 17-06-2016, ALAIN AINA wrote:
>> 3- Lets request AFRINIC R&D team to do an IPV6 readiness analysis per member:
>> 
>> - IPv6 allocation/assignments in Whois
>> - Route6 objects in the IRR
>> - Routing policy in the IRR
>> - IPv6 prefixes in the routing table
>> - IP6.arpa sub-domains delegation
>> - DNS over IPv6
>> - Org web site over IPv6
>> - Etc
> 
>> 
>> And rank members based on their IPv6 readiness. It will tell where we are and may help folks making decisions.
> 
> I am contacting you as I would like to have the opinion of the Afrinic Research and Innovation Department about the above.  Would the above suggestions help to tell Africa where it is in terms of IPv6 readiness?  Are there any changes or improvements which should be made to the above suggestions?
> 
> Regards,
> S. Moonesamy  

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