Country Reports

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Oceania - Polynesia

Open Internet Environment

The open Internet allows people and organizations to mix and match technologies without permission and with minimal barriers. Sustaining and growing an open Internet helps to spur innovation and keep it fit for future applications. An open Internet is an accessible Internet – it is easy to connect to the open Internet and use its services.

Internet Shutdowns

Intentional disruptions of Internet communications, making them unavailable for a specific population, location, or type of access.

  • Ongoing: 0
  • Last 12 months: 0

Transit Provider Diversity

More diversity in routes to the global Internet improves connection resilience.

  • Poor

Popular Content Locality

A measure of how much locally popular web content is hosted in-country or in-region.

  • 18%
  • Regional Rank: 9th
  • Oceania average: 20%

Globally Connected Infrastructure

The globally connected Internet is inclusive. It allows networks and users to interconnect without geographical restrictions. Increasing the connectivity of the Internet makes it more valuable to every participant, as a tool for communications, learning, commerce.

Networks Assigned

A measure of how many Internet networks are active here.

  • 2
  • Regional Rank: 18th
  • Oceania average: 202

IPv4 Addresses Assigned

A measure of how many legacy addresses are assigned here.

  • 5,120
  • Regional Rank: 17th
  • Oceania average: 2,834,338

IPv6 Addresses Assigned

A measure of how many Internet addresses are assigned here.

  • 131,072
  • Regional Rank: 15th
  • Oceania average: 34,220,439

IPv6 Adoption

Enabling the Internet to support more users and more uses.

  • 2%
  • Regional Rank: 17th
  • Oceania average: 18%

Secure and Trustworthy Internet

A secure Internet is resistant to attacks on its infrastructure, delivering a robust service to its user community. A trustworthy Internet meets the expectations of its users by offering a resilient and reliable base for applications and services.

Naming Security Status

Adopting DNSSEC improves trustworthiness of Internet communications.

  • .as Inactive

Naming Security Adoption

A measure of how much local Internet users are protected by DNSSEC.

  • 63%
  • Regional Rank: 19th
  • Oceania average: 66%

Routing Security Adoption

A measure of how much local Internet providers are checking validity of connectivity information they receive from other networks.

  • 18%
  • Regional Rank: 15th
  • Oceania average: 32%

Routing Security Coverage IPv4

One measure of how much local Internet network providers are securing their infrastructure.

  • 18%
  • Regional Rank: 21st
  • Oceania average: 57%

Routing Security Coverage IPv6

One measure of how much local Internet network providers are securing their infrastructure.

  • 2%
  • Regional Rank: 18th
  • Oceania average: 48%