[address-policy-wg] Re: [apwg-chairs] Questions on IPv6

Hi Natalya,

(please do not CC: lots of different folks at the same time - just
address-policy-wg at ripe.net *or* hostmaster at ripe.net is sufficient,
depending on whether you want an answer from the community or from the
RIPE NCC)

On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 04:33:21PM +0600, Natalya Petrova wrote:
> Dear colleagues,
> I need your help on a question of upgrade IP- addresses from version IPv4 on version IPv6:
> 1) Have I understood corretly, that really start of upgrade is 04.02.2008?

Upgrading to IPv6 has started 10 years ago.

There is nothing special (that I know of) that happend on 04.02.2008.

> 2)Till what date/year is it planned to upgrade completely existing addresses with IPv4 on IPv6?

This is a question nobody can answer today.

We know that the IPv4 addresses will run out, some time in 2010 or 2011 - 
but nobody knows how long it will take to completely migrate to IPv6
(or if it will happen at all).

> 3) What completion date IP of IPv4 addresses? What parallel term IPv4
> and IPv6?

Current estimations say "some time in 2011, there will no longer be IPv4
addresses available from the regional registries (RIPE etc.)".

IPv6 is available today, so you can immediately start using IPv4 and IPv6
in parallel.

> 4)There will be automatic a updating in base RIPE (ripe.net) structures existing IPv4 addresses on IPv6?
> Or it will be necessary to make a re-registration manually in base RIPE?

IPv4 and IPv6 are independent.  So you need to ask hostmaster at ripe.net 
for an IPv6 allocation, and use (+document) that in parallel to your
IPv4 allocation.


> 5)In case of our readiness for transition on IPv6 - what documents is
> it necessary to give to experts RIPE (in what form it is necessary to
> notify you and on what e-mail?)

Basically, all you need to do is "tell RIPE that you want IPv6 for
you, and for your customers".  The address is hostmaster at ripe.net, and 
the document is ripe-425.

See also: 

  http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-422.html
  http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-425.html


> 6)Is it possible to make gradually updating IP of addresses with IPv4 on IPv6, for example
> part IP of Kazaktelecom addresses will be upgraded in 2009,
> and part IP of Kazaktelecom addresses in 2010, etc.?

Yes.

Gert Doering
        -- APWG chair
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