India in IPv6 Test
By Asha

The world will run out of IP addresses in the near future, and so the powers that be are preparing for the move to IPv6 which should cater to the booming demand of people, devices and webservices.

On Jan 17, 2011, I had reported on how the new Internet Protocol, IPv6, would be road tested on June 8 for 24 hours at a global level (Article republished below)

The Internet Society has just released the results on the global IPv6 Test.

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Top websites and Internet service providers around the world, including Facebook, Google, Yahoo, Akamai, and Limelight Networks, joined together with more than 1000 other participating websites in World IPv6 Day for a successful global-scale trial of the new Internet Protocol, IPv6. By providing a coordinated 24-hour “test flight”, the event helped demonstrate that major websites around the world are well-positioned for the move to a global IPv6-enabled Internet, enabling its continued exponential growth.

During World IPv6 Day organized by the Internet Society, nearly 400 participating organizations enabled IPv6 on their main services for 24 hours on June 8. With IPv4 addresses running out this year, the industry must act quickly to accelerate full IPv6 adoption or risk increased costs and limited functionality online for Internet users everywhere. World IPv6 Day participants came together to help motivate organizations across the industry–Internet service providers, hardware manufacturers, operating system vendors and other web companies–to prepare their services for the transition.

A key goal of World IPv6 Day was to expose potential issues with real-world IPv6 use under controlled conditions. Given the diversity of technology that powers the Internet, the global nature of the trial was crucial to identify unforeseen problems. The vast majority of users were able to access services as usual, but in rare cases, users experienced impaired access to participating websites during the trial.
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Even as hundreds of companies in USA and Europe participated in this IPv6 road test, India had taken a back seat.  Perhaps, it was because of laziness, perhaps it was because they wanted America and Europe to do the hard work and then use a tested product.

But inregistry.in did participate.  The INRegistry has been created by NIXI, the National Internet eXchange of India. NIXI is a Not-for-Profit Company under Section 25 of the Indian Companies Act, 1956, with the objective of facilitating improved Internet services in the country. Under NIXI, the INRegistry functions as an autonomous body with primary responsibility for maintaining the .IN ccTLD and ensuring its operational stability, reliability, and security.

So, at least one Indian Government organization did participate in this global IPv6 test
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(Techgoss had published the following on Jan 17, 2011)

IPv6 test on June 8
By Asha

The world will run out of IP addresses in the near future, and so the powers that be are preparing for the move to IPv6 which should cater to the booming demand of people, devices and webservices.

IPv4 has approximately four billion IP addresses (the sequence of numbers assigned to each Internet-connected device) but is running out of space. IPv6, the next-generation Internet protocol, which provides over four billion times more space, will connect the billions of people not connected today and will help ensure the Internet can continue its current growth rate.

Facebook, Google, Yahoo and Akamai are preparing for the first global-scale trial of the new Internet Protocol, IPv6. On June 8, 2011, dubbed “World IPv6 Day,” participants will enable IPv6 on their main services for 24 hours.

Any major company can sign on for this trial run.  But so far no company from China and India has signed up for this trial run.  And these are the two countries which will have large demands on new IP addresses in the future.