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Following on a very successful event in January 2009 (videos and slides of the sessions are still available), which was supported by funding from the ISOC Community Grants Programme, the Irish National IPv6 Task Force is hosting another all-day summit in Dublin Castle, Ireland on Wednesday, 19 May 2010.
This year’s event is designed to increase [...]
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Even though IPv6 adoption is dangerously slow, we will see adoption eventually. There are three main sections of the Internet that need to handle IPv6. The Internet networking equipment like routers, proxies and firewalls, and services like DNS and routing need to support IPv6 so that clients can talk to servers that users are connecting [...]
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According to engineers at Hurricane Electric and iNetcore, by mid September, 2011, the Internet registries are expected to run out of routable IP addresses to assign.
On the Seinfeld episode, “The Dealership,” Kramer takes a test drive. The salesman asks about gas and Kramer responds, “There’s still some overlap between the needle and the slash below [...]
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Since 2005, bgpexpert.com been compiling an IPv4 address use report every year. With the start of the new decade, this is a good moment to start doing the same thing for IPv6.
This page shows the amount of IPv6 space given out by RIR and by year, while this page shows the amount of IPv6 [...]
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Google has announced plans to implement ipv6 on YouTube.
networkworld.com gives some extra information about Google’s plans with IPv6:
Google already supports IPv6 with its Search, Alerts, Docs, Finance, Gmail, Health, iGoogle, News, Reader, Picasa, Maps and Wave products.
Google’s Chrome operating system — whose source code was released this week — supports IPv6, as does its [...]
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For anyone that has a website but your your hosting provider or network provider doesnt support IPv6 but you would like to offer IPv6 connectivity for your visitors.
IPv6Proxy.nloffers you a way to do this.. and its free! Just sign up with your domain name, add AAAA (quad A) records to your DNS server and you [...]
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The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory in July conducted the first trial of the U.S. federal government’s new IPv6 test suite on equipment from 10 leading network vendors, including Cisco, Juniper, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard and Sun.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is launching a new IPv6 compliance testing program called USGv6 Test Program. [...]
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American Registry for Internet Numbers president expects federal mandate soon for agencies to begin enabling new protocols on public-facing Web servers
The pool of available IPv4 addresses will be completely allocated in the not-too-distant future.
“It will happen 717 days from today, around 2 in the afternoon, just before tea time,” said John Curran, president of the [...]
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WHILE EVERYONE in the US is enthusiastic about plans to upgrade the nation’s electric power infrastructure to a ’smart grid’ there could be a spinoff benefit for Internet IPv6 adoption.
According to Internet News, Cisco has started its own smart grid push as an effort to peddle its products.
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The next generation of Internet Protocols has some security features built into it, but IPv6 is not inherently more secure than the current IPv4 now in use, said Brett Thorson, network and security architect at Excivity and a security adviser to the North American IPv6 Task Force. IPv6 can be used to block, shield and [...]
