Other Documents

ITU and IPv6

IPv6 tutorial:

Statistics:

Internet Number Resource Status Report (quarterly updated)

Recent IPv6 readiness survey reports:

Regular Publications:

IPv4 scarcity issue:

IPv4 Address Report by Geoff Huston
The Changing Foundation of the Internet: Confronting IPv4 Address Exhaustion by Geoff Huston
Analysis of the future exhaustion of the IPv4 Central pool in relation to IANA and its impact on the AfriNIC region by AfriNIC (April 2007)
A Pragmatic Report on IPv4 Address Space Consumption by Tony Hain, Cisco Systems (September 2005)
Running out of numbers: The impending scarcity of IP addresses and what to do about it by Benjamin Edelman, Harvard Business School

IPv6 Deployment issue:

Action Plan for the deployment of Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) in Europe by Commission of the European Communities (May 2008)
IPv6 Deployment Strategies by Cisco Systems
Protect the Internet's future in Africa, Planning Ahead for IPv6 by Adiel A.Akplogan, CEO of AfriNIC
Action Plan for "Countermeasures against IPv4 Address Exhaustion" by Task Force on IPv4 Address Exhaustion, Japan (February 2009) (also in Japanese)
Planning Guide/Roadmap Toward IPv6 Adoption within the US Government by the Federal CIO Council of USA (May 2009)
Transition Planning for IPv6 by The US Government (August 2005)
Strategy for the Implementation of IPv6 in Australian Government Agencies by Australian Government Information Management Office (AGIMO) (October, 2007)
National IPv6 Action Plan for Germany (May, 2009) (in German)
IPv6 activities and incentives in European countries-results from TRIS survey by Natalija Gelvanovska (August, 2009)

Economic issues:

OECD Study: Economic considerations in the management of IPv4 and in the deployment of IPv6 (May 2008)
Speakers’ Position Paper from NSF/OECD Workshop on the "Social and Economic Factors Shaping the Future of the Internet" by Geoff Huston (January 2007)
Scarcity in IP addresses: IPv4 Address Transfer Markets and the Regional Internet Address Registries by Milton Mueller (July 2008)
IPv6 Economic Impact Assessment Report by NIST

Routing table issue:

Exploring Autonomous System Numbers by Geoff Huston
BGP in 2008 (March 2009) by Geoff Huston
The Whole IPv6 BGP Table by TILAB
IPv6 BGP routing table size growth by TILAB
BGP Routing Table Analysis by Philip Smith
CIDR Report by Tony Bates, Philip Smith, Geoff Huston
AfriNIC Service Region Routing Report by AfriNIC
Global Routing Report by AfriNIC

Internet number resource management:

IPv6 – What is it, why is it important, and who is in charge? by ICANN and RIRs (October 2009)
A Fine Balance: Internet Number Resource Distribution and De-Centralisation by ISOC (June 2009)

Security issue:

North American IPv6 Task Force Paper : IPv6 Security Technology Paper ver.1.0 (July 2006)
IPv6 and IPv4 Threat Comparison and Best-Practice Evaluation (v.1.0) by Sean Convery, Darrin Miller

IPv4 Exhaustion Counter