Abstract. As IPv4 address space approaches exhaustion, large networks are deploying IPv6 or preparing for deployment. However, there is little data available about the quantity and quality of IPv6 connectivity. We describe a methodology to measure IPv6 adoption from the perspective of a Web site operator and to evaluate the impact that adding IPv6 to a Web site will have on its users. We apply our methodology to the Google Web site and present results collected over the last year. Our data show that IPv6 adoption, while growing significantly, is still low, varies considerably by country, and is heavily influenced by a small number of large deployments. We find that native IPv6 latency is comparable to IPv4 and provide statistics on IPv6 transition mechanisms used.

In this paper we describe the architecture and the visual interface of BGPlay, an on-line service for the visualization of the behavior and of the instabilities of Internet routing at the autonomous system level.A graph showing only the connections among autonomous systems is not enough to convey all the information needed to fully understand routing and its changes. BGPlay uses specifically tailored techniques and algorithms to display the state of routing at specific points in time and to animate its changes. The system obtains routing data from well known on-line archives of routing information which are constantly kept up-todate.

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For an Internet Service Provider (ISP), the knowledge of which interdomain paths could be traversed by its BGP announcements-and thus traffic flows-is essential to predict the impact of network faults, to develop effective traffic engineering and peering strategies, and to assess the quality of upstream providers. However, current methodologies do not provide this information. We present methodologies to discover how the BGP announcements for an ISP's prefix are propagated through the Internet using withdrawals and specially crafted ASsets. The techniques allow an ISP to determine which paths could be traversed in the presence of network faults or different routing policies on the ISP's part and to deduce the routing policies of other ISPs with respect to its network. We validate our techniques through experimentation in the IPv6 and IPv4 Internet, showing that they can be safely and effectively applied in real-world situations.

Abstract-Tunnels are widely used to improve security and to expand networks without having to deploy native infrastructure. They play an important role in the migration to IPv6, which relies on IPv6-in-IPv4 tunnels where native connectivity is not available; however, tunnels offer lower performance and are less reliable than native links. In this paper we introduce a number of techniques to detect, and collect information about, IPv6-in-IPv4 tunnels, and show how a known tunnel can be used as a "vantage point" to launch third-party tunnel-discovery explorations, scaling up the discovery process. We describe our Tunneltrace tool, which implements the proposed techniques, and validate them by means of a wide experimentation on the 6bone tunneled network, on native networks in Italy, the Netherlands, and Japan, and through the test boxes deployed worldwide by the RIPE NCC as part of the Test Traffic Measurements Service. We assess to what extent 6bone registry information is coherent with the actual network topology, and we provide the first experimental results on the current distribution of IPv6-in-IPv4 tunnels in the Internet, showing that even "native" networks reach more than 60% of all IPv6 prefixes through tunnels. Furthermore, we provide historical data on the migration to native IPv6, showing that the impact of tunnels in the IPv6 Internet did not significantly decrease over a 6-month period. Finally, we briefly touch on the security issues posed by IPv6-in-IPv4 tunnels, discussing possible threats and countermeasures.

This document recommends that networks provide general-purpose end hosts with multiple global IPv6 addresses when they attach, and it describes the benefits of and the options for doing so.

Tunnels are widely used to improve security and to expand networks without having to deploy native infrastructure, and play an important role in the migration to IPv6. In this paper we introduce a number of techniques to detect, and collect information about, IPv6-in-IPv4 tunnels. We also show how a known tunnel can be used as a "vantage point" to launch third-party tunnel-discovery explorations, scaling up the discovery process. We describe our Tunneltrace tool, which implements the proposed techniques, and validate them by means of a wide experimentation on the 6bone tunneled network, on the GARR network, and through the test boxes deployed worldwide by the RIPE NCC as part of the Test Traffic Measurements Service. We assess to what extent 6bone registry information is coherent with the actual network topology, and we provide the first experimental results on the current distribution of IPv6-in-IPv4 tunnels in the Internet, showing that even "native" networks reach more than 60% of all IPv6 prefixes through tunnels.

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