[Chapter-delegates] Bulgaran MEP asks the European Commission on IPv6

[Veni Markovski]

I thought that one day before the IPv6 day, it's appropriate to publish 
this letter. It is a response to a question by MEPs Ivailo Kalfin 
(member of ISOC from Bulgaria) and Cathrine Trautman.

EN

E-001631/2011

E-001581/2011
Answer given by Ms Kroes
on behalf of the Commission

(27.4.2011)



The Commission has over the years strongly supported the development of 
the IPv6 standard with around EUR 100 million for research and studies. 
Moreover, in 2002^^1 and 2008^^2 , the Commission also adopted 
Communications to the Council and Parliament to raise awareness and 
motivate stakeholders to start deployment of IPv6. Market forces are 
certainly essential to move the situation forward but the Commission 
agrees with the opinion indicated in Honourable Member questions that 
deployment of IPv6 is not happening fast enough. The transition to IPv6 
is clearly the best and only way forward, not only because of its huge 
address space, but also because it provides a platform for innovation in 
Internet Protocol-based services and applications. On February 3^rd 
2011, Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) handed out the last 
blocks of addresses to the Regional Internet Registries (RIRs). As a 
result there are no more IPv4-addresses at the IANA level (world pool). 
RIPE NCC, the regional registry for Europe and Middle-East, responsible 
for handing out IP addresses, expects to be able to hand out IPv4 
addresses up to 2012, but following a strict limitation rule of 
allocation per organization.

Following the Communication from 2008, and its accompanying Action Plan, 
the Commission have included measures to accelerate transition to IPv6, 
in its "Digital Agenda". Through the Competitive and Innovation 
Programme (CIP) the Commission is now inviting public administrations in 
Member States to an open call for proposals with the objective to set up 
a "Pilot" (project between Member States) to further stimulate practical 
implementations and to share experience on IPv6 upgrades of public 
networks and eGovernment services.

The actions undertaken by the Commission have contributed to a greater 
awareness and knowledge development (e.g. via the IPv6 Task Forces and 
via the Framework Research programmes). In addition, 3 studies have been 
launch to closely follow IPv6 deployment (_IPv6 deployment 
<http://www.ipv6monitoring.eu/>_^^3 , _IPv6 Curricula 
<http://www.training4ipv6.eu/>_^^4 , _IPv6 Security 
<http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/policy/ipv6/docs/studies/IPv6%20security%20models%20and%20implications%2030072010.pdf>_^^5 


The _IPv6 Monitoring Deployment Survey 
<http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/policy/ipv6/docs/studies/IPv6%20security%20models%20and%20implications%2030072010.pdf>_shows 
that IPv6 preparedness has steeply increased amongst ISPs (Internet 
Service Providers) in the European region over the last year. However, 
the IPv6 Monitoring Deployment measurement campaign shows that the 
availability of on-line content on IPv6 enabled web sites, and actual 
usage of IPv6 protocols, have hardly increased. This is also true for 
government-generated content on-line. The European Commission itself has 
taken the first steps for deployment and created an IPv6 enabled web 
site^^6 as a trial. The Commission plans to make the Europa website IPv6 
accessible in the near future.

More detailed information about IPv6 deployment on Europa^^7 :

1 Next Generation Internet -- priorities for action in migrating to the 
new Internet

Protocol

2 Action plan "Advancing the Internet"

3 http://www.ipv6monitoring.eu

4 http://www.training4ipv6.eu

5 Security

6 http://ipv6-infso.ec.europa.eu (only for IPv6 users)

7 http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/policy/ipv6


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