With the leaves turning colors and temperatures getting cooler in parts of the ARIN region, the seasons are definitely in transition.  But the weather isn’t the only thing changing—so is the way we connect to the Internet.  Many of us have already transitioned from IPv4 to IPv6 or are in the process of making the transition.

We want to know your reasons for transitioning to IPv6.  Tell us in the comments below.  Maybe you have a story to share?  Maybe you’d like to wax philosophical?  Maybe you haven’t transitioned to IPv6 yet, but you’re considering it?  We want to hear from you too.

Maybe you transitioned to IPv6 because it will allow your peer-to-peer applications to run better?

Maybe you’re transitioning to IPv6 because you see a future where many many devices are going to need a way to connect to the Internet?

Maybe you will transition to IPv6 because you know it will make you the savviest geek in town?

We could keep going, but we would rather hear from you.  Drop us a line in the comments below.

Why are YOU transitioning to IPv6?

Or if its suits you better—Why did YOU transition to IPv6?

Or if you haven’t already—Why will YOU transition to IPv6?

The results are in from the 2011 Global IPv6 Deployment Monitoring Survey and we’re happy to report IPv6 adoption is expected to rise over the next year. A whopping 70% of respondents said they plan to go IPv6 by the end of 2012.

The survey was released by the Number Resource Organization (NRO), which consists of the five Regional Internet Registries (ARIN, AfriNIC, APNIC, LACNIC, and RIPE NCC) and conducted by GNKS Consult, an independent research and evaluation organization.

More than 1,600 respondents from locations around the world participated in the survey, and over 350 of the responses came from the ARIN region.  More than half of the respondents were Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and three quarters were from the commercial sector.

Participants were asked questions like:

Does your organization have an IPv6 presence?

If your organization has IPv6 in production, how does the amount of IPv6 traffic compare to your IPv4 traffic?

What are likely to be the biggest hurdle(s) when deploying IPv6?

Which best describes your organization’s IPv6 implementation (plans)?

In addition to indicating an increase in IPv6 adoption over the course of the next year, the survey results reveal that concerns about IPv6 are diminishing in most areas.

For a brief overview about the survey, refer to the NRO announcement and the ARIN announcement.

For all the juicy details, get straight to the source, and see the results of the IPv6 Deployment Survey for yourself.

As Raúl Echeberría, Chair of the NRO, said, “Information such as this is a valuable tool in gauging the progress made by the Internet community in adopting IPv6…It’s encouraging to see so many positive responses from the survey participants, and all Internet stakeholders should take this as a call to action to deploy IPv6 across their networks.”  We agree!

World IPv6 Day has come and gone, but what really happened?

The answer?  Not a whole lot. ARIN’s president and CEO, John Curran, said, “World IPv6 Day turned out to be everything we expected. For most of the end users of the Internet it was a non-event, which is what we were hoping for. At the same time it was a good learning experience.”

What are ARIN’s results from World IPv6 Day?

World IPv6 Day was just another day at ARIN. ARIN has been utilizing IPv6 for services as far back as 2003. By 2008, all of ARIN’s publicly accessible production services (DNS, mail, web, instant messaging, directory services, etc.) were made available over IPv6 for any user who has IPv6 connectivity. Additionally, ARIN’s internal network is IPv6 enabled which allows anyone within ARIN’s network both local and global IPv6 connectivity. As expected, ARIN did not experience latency, broken links, java script errors, flash plug-in errors, slower loads, or any other issues while accessing IPv6-enabled web sites. ARIN also participated in collecting data for OARC’s IPv6 Day Collection as part of the Day in the Life of the Internet Project.

What can you learn from the trial?

The answer is simple – IPv6 is the future of the Internet.  John Curran predicts, “World IPv6 Day is going to have a very significant effect over the coming months…because it doesn’t talk about a problem, it talks about a solution.” Instead of warning about the run out of IPv4 addresses, it positively reinforced growing the Internet with IPv6 addresses instead.

What effects will we see from World IPv6 Day?

ARIN is pleased that World IPv6 Day generated so much interest and excitement about IPv6 and we fully expect requests for IPv6 addresses to increase with the successful completion of the full-scale testing. We’ve seen a significant uptick at ARIN in requests for IPv6 address space, an encouraging sign of industry awareness of this important change.

What are some of our favorite articles following World IPv6 Day?

• World IPv6 Day draws attention to security issues with new protocol
• What did we learn from World IPv6 Day?
• Vint Cerf on IPv6 Trial: ‘The Internet Is Not Going to Melt Down’
• IPv6 101 on IPv6 Day: What Small Businesses Ought to Know)
• Cox Business puts customers on display during World IPv6 Day
• IPv6 Day a Couple of Days After
• IPv6 Day: Kicking the tires of a next-gen Net today
• IPv6: Come on in, the water’s fine