China has again signaled its intention to shape IPv6 standards and encourage more uptake of the standards within its borders – but may not have succeeded with its past ambitions.
The nation’s Central Network Information Office, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and a couple of other agencies on Thursday issued a 2023 Work Arrangement for Further Promoting Large-scale IPv6 Deployment and Application that sets a goal for 750 million users to actively employ IPv6 by the end of 2023, with 300 million Internet of Things devices using the protocol. Fifteen percent of fixed networks and 55 percent of mobile network traffic are expected to run over IPv6 by year’s end.
Those numbers represent an increase on 2022’s targets that called for 700 million users and 180 million IoT devices by the end of 2023, while the 55 percent mobile-over-IPv6 goal supersedes a previous goal of 45 percent.
VIA The Register