<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi SM,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">You can get some preliminary statistics from <a href="http://6spots.afrinic.net/" class="">http://6spots.afrinic.net/<br class=""></a>
</div><div apple-content-edited="true" class=""></div><div apple-content-edited="true" class=""><br class=""></div><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">Regards,</div><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">Amreesh</div><div apple-content-edited="true" class=""><a href="http://6spots.afrinic.net/" class=""><br class=""></a></div><div apple-content-edited="true" class=""><a href="http://6spots.afrinic.net/" class=""><br class=""></a></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 28, 2016, at 8:25 PM, <a href="mailto:sm+afrinic@elandsys.com" class="">sm+afrinic@elandsys.com</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">Hi Amreesh,<br class="">At 05:13 28-06-2016, Amreesh Phokeer wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">I think this makes much sense, may be we can also make a subtle difference between adoption<br class="">and readiness. Adoption can be measured through deployment and usage, readiness is more qualitative<br class="">and can be answered through surveys, for e.g. do the operators have IPv6 ready networks equipment,<br class="">how IPv6-saavy are they? What percentage of CPEs are IPv6 compatible?<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">I would choose adoption instead of surveys as there would at least be some figures about actual usage. However, it is not my choice as this is a decision for the Afrinic Research and Innovation Department to take.<br class=""><br class="">[snip]<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">To this may I also add:<br class=""><br class="">DNS<br class="">- How many DNS resolvers in Africa are requesting AAAA records<br class="">- Prevalence of AAAA records on African ccTLD zones<br class="">- How much of DNS queries are done over IPv6<br class=""><br class="">Topology<br class="">- How are the different ASes in the region connected to each other over IPv6<br class="">- How much IPv6 traffic is going through African IXPs<br class=""><br class="">On the edge<br class="">- can we measure end-hosts IPv6 capabilities?<br class="">- can we measure usage of tunnelling mechanisms<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">My estimate is that it should be possible to get some figures for the above within a week. For example, the monthly maximum for IPv4 and IPv6 traffic for the local IXP at my location is less than 50 Mb/s. I did a test for the ccTLD zone and there were AAAA records.<br class=""><br class="">I suggest giving some of what you wrote a try and making the details publicly available.<br class=""><br class="">Regards,<br class="">S. Moonesamy <br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>