30 July 2021
- China Telecom: Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China published “3-Year Specific Action Plan of IPv6 Traffic Promotion” (2021-2023). The end-to-end performance of IPv6 is still to be improved.
- Verizon (USA): the Federal Government published OMB-M-21-07 Completing the Transition to Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6), requiring that at least 80% of IP-enabled assets on Federal networks are operating IPv6-only environments by the end of FY 2025.
- ARCEP (France): introduced the publication of the Annual barometer of the transition to IPv6 in France. The IPv6 deployment has increased from 12% to 47% during the last 5 years. IPv6 compatibility is required for 5G frequency 3.4~3.8GHz band licence holders.
- Ofcom (UK): introduced its vision on future Internet services. The report Internet Futures – Spotlight on what will be shaping the Internet of the Future was published in July. The report indicates that the use of IoT will boost the deployment of IPv6; at IETF, protocols like SRv6 are being developed to improve the IPv6 performance.
- John Lee from Internet Associates LLC also introduced IPv6 address planning.
The work items are being actively updated. The draft SRv6 based service function chain for value-added service in operator network proposed by China Unicom was adopted as a new work item of IPE.
The other existing work items also made great progress and were discussed during the meeting. Those work items and their rapporteurs are:
- DGR/IPE-001 IPE Gap Analysis, (Huawei, Eduard Vasilenko)
- DGR/IPE-002 IPv6 based Data Centres, Network and Cloud Integration, (China Telecom, Cong LI)
- DGR/IPE-003 Transition to IPv6 Only, (Internet Associates John Lee)
- DGR/IPE-004 IPv6 based enterprise networking and Industrial Internet, (CISCO Pascal Thubert)
- DGR/IPE-005 5G Transport and Cloud and IP network Convergence over IPv6/SRv6, (POST Luxembourg Sebastien Lourdez)
- DGR/IPE-006 IPv6 and Cloud using DataBlockMatrix for Food Supply Chain Tracking and Tracing (Biigroup, Haisehng Yu)
- DGR/IPE-007 IPv6-based 5G for Connected and Automated Mobility (University of Luxembourg, Ion Turcanu)
- RGR/IPE-008 IPvIPv6 Ready Logo Program: IoT & 6TiSCH (Mandat International IoT Lab, Cedric Crettaz)
Member & participant updates: ARCEP (France), Ofcom (UK), AFRINIC (Africa) and Verizon Business Group joined IPE. We now have 63 members & participants in the big family:
We are happy to announce that the ETSI webinar: IPv6 Enhanced Innovation: the IPv6-Only Future in the 5G, IoT & Cloud Era will be held on September 13, 2021. You are welcome to join freely online. For more information and agenda, please check https://www.etsi.org/events/upcoming-events/1956-webinar-ipv6-enhanced-innovation-the-ipv6-only-future-in-the-5g-iot-cloud-era-1-2
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