The ICANN blog recently discussed the adoption of IPv6, and assumed readers would be shocked to find out which region is showing the widest adoption of the new protocol. Not surprisingly, the largest number of networks displaying the new address blocks are those registered through AfriNIC, which services networks in Africa and the Indian Ocean.
The growth of IPv6 in Africa is expected since it is a continent that's showing rapid growth in terms of online connectivity. With the estimated date for exhaustion of IPv4 addressing in 2010, it makes sense to that a burgeoning Internet community would adopt the new protocol. It should be noted though, that many older pieces of equipment can't address the IPv6 standards, and is still dependent on using the older protocol. IPv4 will probably be very much alive to address those systems.
ICANN also noted on the blog that AfriNIC has a smaller installed base than many of the other regions but it's encouraging to see new markets already moving toward the new protocol.
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The numbers to add, so to NOT confuse the people who now shout that Africa is going so great:
See SixXS Ghost Route Hunter for the live data:
* 6bone (144) (phased out on 6/6/2006)
* RIPE (1119)
* APNIC (490)
* ARIN (706)
* LACNIC (115)
* AfriNIC (60)
There are thus ONLY 60 IPv6 allocations in the African region, if you then follow the link, you will find the following nice thing: "Thus 19 (33.33%) networks are currently correctly announced."
As there barely is no Internet in Africa, (especially when looking at ASNs, and remember that a lot of US ASN's are used in Africa) yes you might reach 22%.
Wow, yes that is a lot compared to the rest of the world:
AFRINIC - 19 (33.33%)
LACNIC - 37 (32.17%)
APNIC - 223 (45.70%)
ARIN - 239 (34.00%)
RIPE - 548 (49.02%)
Europe wins again! :)
Statistics again show how easily things can be misunderstood and interpreted in various ways.
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