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Kjell Leknes IP Resource Analyst

IPv4 Future & IPv6 in the Middle East

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The Internet Registry System

IANA

AFRINIC Africa

APNIC Asia Pacific

ARIN North America

LACNIC Latin America

RIPE NCC Eurasia

Middle East

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The RIPE community

• Open to anyone interested

• Includes businesses, governments, regulators, law enforcement agencies, civil society, academia, and private citizens

• Participation through mailing lists and by attending meetings

Future of IPv4

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IANA IPv4 Pool - Path To Exhaustion

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IPv4 Exhaustion and the RIPE NCC

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Obtaining More IPv4

• New policy might allow one /22 every 18 months

• More IPv4 address space available through transfers

• Listing service available for those wanting to trade

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RIPE NCC IPv4 Pool

IPv6 in the Middle East

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IPv6 Allocations by Country

0

75

150

225

300

TR IR LB SA IQ AE JO PS KW BH SY QA OM YE

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IPv6 RIPEness

• A rating system that awards “stars”

• A member scores one star each for:

- Holding an IPv6 allocation

- Announcing the IPv6 allocation in BGP

- Registering a route6 object in the RIPE Database

- Setting up reverse DNS for the IPv6 allocation

- Offering content or access over IPv6

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IPv6 RIPEness in the RegionMiddle East

No IPv6307

4 Stars38

3 Stars92

2 Stars97

1 Star503

Bahrain

No IPv64

4 Stars1

3 Stars3

2 Stars3

1 Star7

Questions