[AusNOG] APNIC offers public response to TSB Questionnaire

[Srinivas Chendi]

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APNIC offers public response to TSB Questionnaire
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[April 22, 2009, Brisbane Australia]

On 27 March 2009, the Telecommunication Standardization Bureau (TSB)
issued a 'Questionnaire on IPv6 address allocation and encouraging the
deployment of IPv6' to all Member States of the Union, to be returned by
12 June 2009.

The final report will be submitted to the closed ITU Council meeting in
Geneva, 20-30 October 2009.

The Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC), an ITU-D sector
member, has respectfully offered a public response to assist Member
States with data that may help in completing the questionnaire. The
response collates information from all five Regional Internet Registries
and includes: 
- Trends in address space consumption on a per-economy basis over 
the past four years 
- Current global IPv4 and IPv6 distribution by economy 
- Number of organizations per economy in the Asia Pacific region that 
have IP address space from APNIC ranges

As the representative bodies responsible for distribution of IP
addresses, the five Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) are best placed
to  produce unique and reliable data on IP addressing and to offer
informed interpretation of that data. All RIRs make IP address
distribution data freely available to the public on their websites.

APNIC advises that stakeholders seeking to understand the dynamics of
IPv4 exhaustion and IPv6 deployment should also take into account other
factors, such as Internet penetration rates, local market competition
and population densities, when interpreting and extrapolating address
distribution data.

You can access the following documents in the APNIC website:

- APNIC's response to the TSB questionnaire is available online at:
http://www.apnic.net/community/research/ipv6/tsb-ipv6-survey-apnic.pdf

- APNIC's press release announcing the document is available at:
http://www.apnic.net/news/2009/itu-response-press-release.pdf

APNIC statistics are open to stakeholders through APNIC?s Apstats
statistics report generator. This is accessible via
http://www.apnic.net/apstats

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Srinivas (Sunny) Chendi                   email:         sunny at apnic.net
External Relations Manager                sip:      sunny at voip.apnic.net
APNIC                                     phone:         +61 7 3858 3100 
http://www.apnic.net                      fax:           +61 7 3858 3199
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