[rpd] IPv6 as a criteria in IPv4 Soft Landing AFPUB-2026-v6-001-DRAFT01.

[jordi.palet at consulintel.es]

Hi Benson,

Gabon is a good example of a good deployment in one of the ISPs (GVA), at least in terms of having a coherent % of traffic (I don’t know the rest of the details, for example prefix size to customers, if it is persistent, etc.), but if you look at the other ISPs, is not good …

Note that looking into a country is good as a generic rule, but the view of each big ISP is key.

India is a unique case, and there is a special history behind. Very short: All started because the “fight” among two brothers and the 2nd one of them starting telecom very late, when getting IPv4 was already impossible, so he decided to create an extensive IPv6-only network across the country an provide to customers a price with even free 3 trial months, that couldn’t be beaten by competitors. As a result, all the other competitors were somehow “forced” to do IPv6 as well, together with some regulator actions.

This kind of cases are difficult to repeat in other countries. But in general, despite country GDP, status of Internet penetration, etc., etc. (there is a good presentation about this from Geoff Huston), in the end, what it matters is when an ISP in a country deploy IPv6, others need to do the same, but not always happens immediately, because you don’t have the expertise in deployment. Trainings is often not enough, because this doesn’t give you deployment experience, and also most of the trainings provided worldwide, don’t have a real deployment expertise using the latest transition mechanisms.

You can see the GVA case in Gabon, that shows what I’ve said during this week many times. Because most of the time 80-90% of your traffic is to big content providers, caches, CDNs, etc., and they already have enabled IPv6, when you turn on IPv6 in an ISP, you quickly get 80-90% of your traffic becoming IPv6. Of course, it depends on the pace of your deployment in terms of number of "deployed customers".

Regards,
Jordi

@jordipalet

> El 26 jun 2026, a las 6:16, Benson Muite <benson_muite at emailplus.org> escribió:
> 
> "jordi.palet--- via RPD" <rpd at afrinic.net> writes:
> 
>> Hi Seun,
>> 
>> I will actually say personally, the only acceptable X=1, but happy to concede with 2. Hopefully we don’t have a discussion and every participant chose a different number, as this is the typical issue when asking for a decision of “number of whatever” in trying to reach consensus.
> 
> The low adoption rate is worrying.  Clear criteria to justify IPv4
> maybe helpful.  If one gets IPv4, IPv6 is free.  It is good that Afrinic
> is doing outreach to universities. From Africa Gabon seems to have the
> highest percentage capability:
> https://stats.labs.apnic.net/ipv6
> India also has good adoption and a diverse set of people in the internet
> industry.  Understanding what has lead to adoption in these places may
> help guide whether what new policies sohuld be adopted if any and how to
> complement these with outreach and education activities.
> 
> 
>> 
>> I will also say that X is only for “single” allocations/assigments, in the sense that if you are doing something for HA (one of the policies that reached consensus yesterday), you must do it with IPv6. There is no sense that you deploy, today, an HA infrastructure without IPv6. What do you think ?
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Jordi
>> 
>> @jordipalet
>> 
>>> El 25 jun 2026, a las 2:37, Seun Ojedeji <seun.ojedeji at gmail.com> escribió:
>>> 
>>> Hi Jordi,
>>> 
>>> ----
>>> Sent from my mobile
>>> kindly excuse typos
>>> 
>>> On Wed, 24 Jun 2026, 6:14 pm jordi.palet--- via RPD, <rpd at afrinic.net <mailto:rpd at afrinic.net>> wrote:
>>>> .
>>>> 
>>>> So there is no difference in now setting a policy that clearly say, you get more IPv4, but you must also deploy IPv6.
>>>> 
>>>> We could also do something slightly different, I’m not sure if this is what Seun tried to say in the mic earlier this afternoon.
>>>> 
>>>> We don’t give any more IPv4 resources if you already got them previously. This has been done by most of the other RIRs. Will you agree with that? Only newcomers can get IPv4.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> SO: More like you don't get IPv4 resources if you already got it for X number of times in the current phase unless you meet the IPv6 deployment plan requirements. My intention is for X not !=Once
>>> 
>>> Regards
>>>> 
>>>> Now, as a 2nd part of the proposal, resources left (even recovered), can be provided to anyone who also deploy IPv6, regardless of being a newcomer or an existing member.
>>>> 
>>>> What do you think?
>>>> 
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Jordi
>>>> 
>>>> @jordipalet


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