Africa Leads In IPv6 Adoption 122
Ian Lamont writes "The recent news that China will run out of IPv4 addresses in a few years points to slow adoption of IPv6 in some developed countries. Now it turns out that the largest number of networks displaying new IPv6 address blocks are registered through AfriNIC, which services networks in Africa and the Indian Ocean. While AfriNIC has a smaller installed base than other regions, many countries in Africa are showing rapid growth in terms of online connectivity."
Simple (Score:5, Informative)
Makes sense (Score:5, Informative)
Considering that African nations have each a small fraction of the 16 million addresses that the GE corporation has, they need something better than NAT.
'Africa' is a racist term (Score:0, Informative)
It was invented by the Carthegians so they could describe the land where they got their slaves (it comes from the name of a mythical Greek king Afros who was famous for capturing slaves). When the term moved to Latin, the Roman Republic made an Africa province. The point of this province was so that they could capture slaves to the south for work in the Republic.
Re:Makes sense (Score:5, Informative)
That, and the lack of existing infrastructure that needs to be changed in order to meet IPv6. There probably wasn't a huge "switch" phase involved in having IPv6 deployed, whereas the western world is on IPv4, switching to IPv6 actually takes a lot of work.
Re:'Africa' is a racist term (Score:2, Informative)
For the info, the wikipedia article proposes 5 different etymologies, none related to this one.
Actually, I cannot even find references to a Greek king named Afros. The closer mythical Greek I found is Aphrodite, but that has a rather different connotation!
Really, you should not believe everything you read on the internet.
Re:Slackers! (Score:3, Informative)
what's shocking is that it was 4 minutes before first post!
Re:Being first has no benefit (Score:4, Informative)
Except the project is not yet up and running, so it's quite useless even for those of us who do have IPv6 connectivity...
/Mikael
The joy of statistics: "Journalists" being wrong (Score:2, Informative)
The numbers to add, so to NOT confuse the people who now shout that Africa is going so great:
See SixXS Ghost Route Hunter [sixxs.net] for the live data:
* 6bone (144) (phased out on 6/6/2006)
* RIPE (1119)
* APNIC (490)
* ARIN (706)
* LACNIC (115)
* AfriNIC (60)
There are thus ONLY 60 IPv6 allocations in the African region, if you then follow the link, you will find the following nice thing: "Thus 19 (33.33%) networks are currently correctly announced."
As there barely is no Internet in Africa, (especially when looking at ASNs, and remember that a lot of US ASN's are used in Africa) yes you might reach 22%.
Wow, yes that is a lot compared to the rest of the world:
AFRINIC - 19 (33.33%)
LACNIC - 37 (32.17%)
APNIC - 223 (45.70%)
ARIN - 239 (34.00%)
RIPE - 548 (49.02%)
Europe wins again! :)
Statistics again show how easily things can be misunderstood and interpreted in various ways.