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Akamai State of the Internet Q1-2017

Akamai has released their 2017-Q1 state of the Internet report, and as usual it includes some interesting insights into what is going on in how the world is connected.

A few interesting things I noted:

  • 814M active IPv4 addresses were observed
  • Belgium remains the IPv6 adoption leader at 38% of connections supporting dual-stack, followed by Greece at 25%, and the US at 22%
  • Verizon & T-Mobile now have 82% of connections to Akamai being served over IPv6

Akamai – Q1 2017 State of the Internet (Copy)

2016 Addressing Report

Geoff Huston recently released his annual addressing report looking back at 2016.  Within his report a few things jumped out at me.

  • Transfers (almost 4,000 transfers constituting more that 32 million IPv4 addresses) continue to grow and mostly are old legacy address blocks which are now being put into reuse.
  • The ARIN region, despite its restrictive “need-based” policies on IPv4 transfers continues to lead in transfers with more than 15 million addresses in 2016.
  • Transfers are creating some level of deaggregation, this was largely expected as current IPv4 address holders break up larger blocks to sell either for a higher per unit price, or to match the size needed to buyers.
  • The number of IPv6 addresses being distributed to organizations continues to increase with more than 50,000 /32s being distributed in 2016.

Addressing 2016 (copy)

BGP 2016 (copy)

USG announces it will let IANA contract expire

The US government, via the NTIA, issued an update that it intends to let the IANA contract expire at the end of September, which allows the IANA transition process to complete.

Update on the IANA Transition (copy)

Obama Administration to Privatize Internet Governance on Oct. 1

In the case of IP numbers, this will allow the new contract (SLA) between the RIRs and ICANN to be effective, such that ICANN will now manage the IANA number resource functions for the RIRs under contract from the RIRs rather than the USG.

There are of course those who still opine about the risks associated with this transition, but my personal opinion is that if the Internet is to continue to be open and inclusive, it has to not have a single string tied to the US government.  That might not appease everyone who is a strong supporter of the US and USG, but if that single string remains, it only seeks to bifurcate the Internet into national nets for those countries which disagree in some manner with the US.