Ipv6?

[seanwg]

Hi

Sorry funny question. I work as a network architect for a CLEC in north america. I am seeing all this writing from ARIN (equiv to APNIC) going on about how everything has to transition finally to IPv6 due to address shortages.

APNIC has way way less address space than ARIN. How much IPv6 is being deployed in Thailand?

Just curious

Sean

[Rice_King]

How much IPv6 is being deployed in Thailand?

I don't know if anyone here can give you a straight answer to that Sean. I certainly don't have that info for you and wouldn't even know how to "Google" it to find out.

From my experience the few years I have lived in this country, it would not surprise me if Thailand was the last holdout on IPv4 and the last to adopt IPv6. You only have to read "The telecom minister who doesn't use e-mail" and "Net-unfriendly ICT chief gives Kingdom a black eye" to see what we are up against here.

Edited July 7, 2007 by Rice_King

[Simmo]

The address shortage was always mostly fearmongering by hardware vendors to sell new equipment.

With the standard widespread use of NAT in business and home there's not much need for it now. I've read IPv6 is used quite a bit in Korea & Japan, never seen it used here though.

[seanwg]

Someone is using it

Look at

http://bgp.potaroo.net/iso3166/v6cc.html

There are 10 /32s in operation in thailand...

Interestingly enough, top user of IPv6 (at lease by public announcements of /32s) is Germany followed by France.

Sean

[Richard-BKK]

The Thailand's IPv6 Testbed project started in October 2001 by staffs from NECTEC's Next Generation Internet group. Since its operation, it has established IPv6 connections to many universities and ISPs in the country.

The connections are mostly in forms of automatic tunneling and dual-stack technologies. In December 2004, the Thailand IPv6's Testbed project joined force with Prince Songkhla University and other ISPs to form the Thailand IPv6 Forum as an official collaboration of active IPv6 players in the country.

Together with the establishment of the forum, the first native IPv6 connection was born between NECTEC and CAT Telecom. For details of the project's activities, please goto http://ipv6.nectec.or.th

Edit: typo

Edited July 7, 2007 by Richard-BKK

[Rice_King]

"... it would not surprise me if Thailand was the last holdout on IPv4 and the last to adopt IPv6."

I may have to eat my own words. Great reference page Richard. Thanks for that.

There is hope...