Posts by jcurran

Crashed RadioShack flogs off its IPv4 stash

Re: IPv6 Migration

Bob - It already is happening... nearly 1/5 of the worlds traffic is over IPv6, and growing rapidly -

https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html

Re: Whatever happened to the great migration to IPv6?

Your mobile operators are already using IPv6, and the broadband companies are quickly catching up. Google tracks whether users are connecting via IPv4 or IPv6, and in the US more than 1/3 of all users are connecting via IPv6 (and this is rapidly growing)

https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html#tab=per-country-ipv6-adoption&tab=per-country-ipv6-adoption

RIRs are enforcing the rules

The Regional Internet Registries are enforcing the rules - these are policies which are developed and adopted by the Internet operator community. What Kieran somehow muddled in the article is that these policies have changed over time, which makes perfect sense since the Internet and address availability have changed since the beginning of the Internet.

/John

John Curran

President and CEO

American Registry for Internet Numbers

Internet takes another step away from US govt and into ICANN's hands

Excellent article, aside from inaccurate/misleading title

Hello Kieren!

Thank you for the article covering this important event - as usual, you've done a very credible job of summarizing the situation including the points that people need to take away.

I will, however, take exception with the title ("Internet takes another step away from US govt and into ICANN's hands"); while it is not quite click-bait, it is badly misleading and propagating some of the misinformation regarding the very nature of the IANA Stewardship Transition. To be clear, the transition is not about the operation of the various IANA registries - that is ICANN now, and shall remain ICANN after transition - but the party acting as the steward for the registries and who is contracting with ICANN to perform that administration.

For the Internet number registries, the affected community has had the benefit of being represented by the five member-based Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) going back for decades - hence it is more logical for the RIRs to collectively contract with ICANN to perform the administration of the global Internet number registries than to have ICANN perform that under the auspices of a single government.

Your title (which may have been beyond your control) should have read "Regional Internet Number Registries Ready for Stewardship Handoff from US Govt" or something to that effect. It may not generate as many clicks, but will serve your readership far better than the present title.

Thanks!

/John

John Curran

President and CEO

ARIN