User talk:Ben g

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File:Rir-ipv6-allocation-rate.svg and File:IPv6-as.svg

Hi Mro, I would like to use the two above images in the German Wikipedia article about IPv6. It is however unclear to me what exactly the diagrams depict. Does File:IPv6-as.svg show the number of (ASes with) assigned IPv6 prefixes or only the visible ones? Does File:Rir-ipv6-allocation-rate.svg only show the number of RIR assignments or is their size factored in? It would be great if you could clarify the file descriptions and maybe add references to your sources. --Ben g (talk) 13:47, 4 June 2011 (UTC)

Hello. The file Ipv6-as.svg is built with the data from http://bgp.potaroo.net/v6/as2.0/bgp-as-count.txt and http://bgp.potaroo.net/v6/as2.0/bgp-active.txt maintained by Geoff Huston (see http://bgp.potaroo.net/v6/as2.0/ and the summary on http://bgp.potaroo.net/v6/as2.0/report.txt). bgp-active represents the number of unique IPv6 prefixes in the global routing table (as measured by Geoff), while bgp-as-count.txt is the total number of AS (origin or transit). rir-ipv6-allocation-rate.svg is based on the RIR statistics published by the RIRs and that can be found under ftp://ftp.ripe.net/pub/stats/ it counts the number of IPv6 of prefixes regardless of their size. Mro (talk) 16:03, 4 June 2011 (UTC)