deployment
Irish IPv6 Summit 2010
Mar 7th
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 [...]
NANOG48: SixXS – Trying to Get IPv6 to the User
Feb 23rd
SixXS (http://www.sixxs.net) is a project run by two enterprising Dutchman providing IPv6 connectivity through various ISP-provided PoPs to users around the world. The project came up with a couple of unique methods of getting people to get connected to IPv6 (AICCU which provides heartbeat and AYIYA tunnels) and also to make sure that the connectivity [...]
NANOG48 : IPv6 Link Numbering Panel
Feb 23rd
NANOG48 : IPv6 Link Numbering Panel
Ron Bonica, Juniper Networks; Panelist: Igor Gashinsky, Yahoo!
Ron Bonica Presentation
Igor Gashinsky Presentation
Rob Seastrom Presentation
Kevin Loch Presentation
The Road To IPv6 Is Paved With NATs
Jan 7th
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 [...]
IPv4 Runs Low Faster Than IPv6 Is Adopted
Jan 7th
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 [...]
2009 IPv6 Address Use Report
Jan 3rd
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 [...]
Google to roll out ipv6 to youtube
Nov 22nd
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 [...]
Peering Disputes Migrate to IPv6
Oct 23rd
Disputes over peering, which have quickly made the jump from IPv4 to IPv6.
Complaints of a “broken IPv6 Internet” emerged last week on the North American Network Operators Group mailing list, which surfaced a peering issue involving IPv6 connections between Hurricane Electric and Cogent Communications.
While Hurricane Electric pointed the finger at Cogent, it has also [...]
IPv6 adoption is speeding up
Oct 21st
The adoption of IPv6 is becoming a U.S. phenomenon, both Comcast and Verizon Wireless are moving head with there own NGN IPv6 networks and migrating from IPv4 to IPv6. According to the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), U.S. based service providers interest in IPv6 over IPv4 addresses continues to ramp up.
During the [...]
Agencies should plan now to enable IPv6 on public-facing servers
Sep 19th
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 [...]
