World IPv6 Day and World IPv6 Launch Day
World IPv6 Day was a technical testing and publicity event in 2011 sponsored and organized by the Internet Society and several large Internet content services to test and promote public IPv6 deployment.[1] Following the success of the 2011 test day, the Internet Society carried out a World IPv6 Launch day on June 6, 2012 which, instead of just a test day, was planned to permanently enable IPv6 for the products and services of the participants.[2]
World IPv6 Day
World IPv6 Day was announced on January 12, 2011 with five anchoring companies:
The test primarily consisted of websites publishing
Many companies and organizations participated in the experiment, including the largest
Participants
There were more than 400 participants in the original World IPv6 Day..
Results
Major carriers measured the percentage of IPv6 traffic of all Internet traffic as increasing from 0.024 to 0.041 with respect to native and tunneled stacks combined.[citation needed] Most IPv6 traffic in consumer access networks was to Google sites. Demonstrating the need for content sites to adopt IPv6 for success, the biggest increase was actually in 6to4 transitional technologies. Early results indicated that the day passed according to plan and without significant problems for the participants.[12]
Cisco and Google reported no significant issues during the test.[13][14] Facebook called the results encouraging, and decided to leave their developer site IPv6-enabled as a result.[15] But the consensus was that more work needed to be done before IPv6 could consistently be applied.[16][17]
The participants said they would continue to perform detailed analyses of the data. Many participants found it worthwhile to continue to maintain dual-stacks.[18]
World IPv6 Launch
Following the success of the original World IPv6 Day, the exercise was repeated on June 6, 2012 as the World IPv6 Launch, this time with the intention of leaving IPv6 permanently enabled on all participating sites.[19] The event was billed as "this time, it's for real".[20]
Participants
Participants in the World IPv6 Launch included participants from the 2011 test day, and many more, including the Wikimedia Foundation, which permanently enabled IPv6 on its sites, including Wikipedia.
Results
According to Alain Fiocco of Cisco, content that currently receives roughly 30% of global World Wide Web IPv4 pageviews should now have become available via IPv6 after World IPv6 Launch Day.
See also
References
- ^ "About World IPv6 Day". Internet Society. Archived from the original on June 25, 2011. Retrieved July 20, 2022.
- ^ "World IPv6 Launch on June 6, 2012, To Bring Permanent IPv6 Deployment". January 17, 2012.
- ^ "Major Websites Commit to 24-Hour Test Flight for IPv6". Internet Society. January 12, 2011. Archived from the original on January 14, 2011. Retrieved July 20, 2022.
- ^ "World IPv6 Day – How to Participate". Internet Society. Retrieved December 6, 2011.
- ^ "Corporate reasons to move to IPv6". Archived from the original on January 15, 2011. Retrieved March 29, 2011.
- ^ "Video". www.youtube.com. Retrieved June 24, 2020.
- ^ "World IPv6 Day – List of Participants". Internet Society. Retrieved December 6, 2011.
- ^ Colitti, Lorenzo (June 6, 2011). "World IPv6 Day begins 24 hours from now. Websites, start your engines". Official Google Blog on Blogger. Archived from the original on June 13, 2011. Retrieved July 20, 2022.
- ^ "INET Conferences".
- ^ "Internet Society - World IPv6 Day List of Participants". Archived from the original on June 3, 2011. Retrieved January 13, 2022.
- ^ "Как запускали IPv6 в Яндексе — Яндекс.События". events.yandex.ru. Archived from the original on September 24, 2012.
- ^ Doyle, Eric (June 9, 2011). "IPv6 Day Is Hailed As A Qualified Success". eWeek Europe. Archived from the original on June 13, 2011. Retrieved June 9, 2011.
- ^ Townsley, Mark (June 8, 2011). "World IPv6 Day: A Watershed Moment Towards a New Internet Protocol". Cisco Systems. Retrieved June 9, 2011.
- ^ Colitti, Lorenzo (June 6, 2011). "World IPv6 Day begins 24 hours from now. Websites, start your engines". Official Google Blog. Retrieved June 9, 2011.
- ^ Lee, Donn (June 8, 2011). "Exciting Results from World IPv6 Day". Facebook Engineering's Notes. Retrieved June 9, 2011.
- ^ Dornan, Andy (June 16, 2011). "What Did IPv6 Day Teach Us?". InformationWeek. Archived from the original on June 19, 2011. Retrieved July 20, 2022.
- ZDNet. Archived from the originalon June 15, 2011. Retrieved July 20, 2022.
- ^ "Dual Stack Connectivity Chart". RIPE Network Coordination Centre. Archived from the original on June 24, 2011. Retrieved July 20, 2022.
- ^ "World IPv6 Launch". Internet Society. Retrieved June 7, 2012.
- ^ Middleton, Chris (June 6, 2012). "Today is World IPv6 Launch day, says alliance of providers (new updates)". Computing.
- ^ Alain Fiocco (June 5, 2012). "World IPv6 Launch: Impact on the Web". Cisco Systems.
- ^ Iljitsch van Beijnum (June 6, 2012). "World IPv6 Launch gets 27 percent of pageviews on IPv6". Ars Technica.
- ^ www.oberon.nl, Oberon Amsterdam. "AMS-IX Amsterdam". www.ams-ix.net.
External links
- Internet Society – World IPv6 Day
- Internet Society – World IPv6 Launch
- After World IPv6 Day, what's next? Archived December 30, 2012, at the Wayback Machine – Engineers from Cisco, Google, Hurricane Electric, and Yahoo! discuss the deployment work done for World IPv6 Day and share the experience learned. (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4 of the seminar on YouTube)