6Watch: Gauging the Global Rollout of IPv6

Lixia ZhangUCLA

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Why 6Watch◊

Rolling out IPv6: A Great Challenge facing the entire Internet community

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What we can help: measurement, monitoring, diagnosisIPv6 address allocationsIPv6 routing announcementsthe topological connectivity of IPv6-enabled

networks, andIPv6 reachability in the data plane

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The 6Watch Team

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http://6watch.net/

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What We Measure and Monitor

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http://routeviews.org/

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6Spider: Initial Set of Pollers

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Number of ASes Originating IPv6 Prefix Announcements Since 2002.11.11

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Number of Announced IPv6 Prefixes Since 2002.11.11

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A Repositary of IPv6 Deployment Info

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Looking Forward◊

Complete data plane monitoring implementation

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Correlate control plane with data plane to provide a comprehensive overview of IPv6 deployment

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Add diagnosis functions◊

Evolve 6Watch website towards the goto

site for IPv6 deployment

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