Much has been written in the international media over the last few weeks about the dwindling pool of Internet addresses using the original Internet protocol, called IPv4 (Internet Protocol version 4). This week, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) allocated [...]
From: RIPE NCC by Alex Pawlik Dear colleagues, On 1 February 2011, the IANA allocated two /8s of IPv4 address space to APNIC, the Regional Internet Registry (RIR) for the Asia Pacific region. This means that only five /8s of IPv4 [...]
Last week Kurt Erik Lindqvist, CEO of netnod announced to NANOG mailing list that the the I root server DNS server turned on IPv6. Currently, it’s only enabled at the Stockholm node. The Domain Name System (DNS) is the distributed [...]
This is a last-call reminder to participate in the 2010 Global IPv6 Deployment Monitoring Survey, conducted by GNKS Consult and TNO in collaboration with the RIPE NCC. The survey is available at: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/IPv6deploymentmonitoring2010 The deadline to complete the survey is [...]
Facebook is experimenting with IPv6 connectivity to their website. www.v6.facebook.com has IPv6 address 2620:0:1cfe:face:b00c::3 You can reach facebook over IPv6 on the following address: http://www.v6.facebook.com apps.v6.facebook.com has IPv6 address 2620:0:1cfe:face:b00c::6
MONTREAL (May 25, 2010) – gogo6 inc., the leading provider of IPv6 products, community and services, today announced gogoNET (gogoNET.gogo6.com), the social network for IPv6 professionals, has reached over 20,000 members since its launch in December 2009. Upon joining gogoNET [...]
Geeksaresexy.net has a very interesting article on the future of v4 space and the possibility of a black market where IPv4 could sell for rates far higher than estimated fee of $1,250 a year for 256 addresses. Read at source [...]
Ivan Pepelnjak (CCIE#1354) from ioshints.info is hosting a webex on April13th on Building IPv6 Service Provider Core When building an IPv6-enabled Service Provider core, you have three design options: dual-stack deployment, running IPv6 over MPLS (6PE) or running IPv6 inside [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
