i.root-servers.net available via ipv6
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.
NTT and AT&T have had web presentations on IPv6
Within the last few weeks NTT and AT&T have had web presentations on IPv6.
Last Call : 2010 Global IPv6 Deployment Monitoring Survey
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 this Thursday, 1 July 2010.
All five Regional Internet Registries have committed to soliciting participation in this survey in order to compile the most complete global IPv6 deployment data possible. The goal of the survey is to gain a better understanding of where the community is moving, and what can be done to ensure the Internet community is ready for the widespread adoption of IPv6.
We encourage all organisations in the RIPE NCC service region to participate in this survey, which we hope will establish a comprehensive view of present IPv6 penetration and future plans for IPv6 deployment.
The survey is composed of 23 questions and can be completed in about 15 minutes. For those without IPv6 allocations or assignments, or who have not yet deployed IPv6, the questions will be fewer in number.
Results of the IPv6 Deployment Monitoring Survey will be presented and discussed at RIPE 61, which will be held 15-19 November in Rome, Italy.
Results will also be published on IPv6 Act Now:
http://ipv6actnow.org
Please provide your name and contact information on the survey form if you wish to receive the draft survey analysis when available. Please also indicate whether you are willing to share additional data with the TNO and GNKS Consult IPv6 Deployment Monitoring team.
Any questions concerning the survey itself should be addressed to <info@gnksconsult.com>.
Regards,
Paul Rendek
Head of External Relations and Communications RIPE NCC
Free IPv4 and IPv6 DNS hosting
Hurricane Electric now offers free DNS hosting. This service provides both native IPv6 and IPv4 authorative nameservice, supports A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, NS, TXT, SRV, and PTR records, as well as IPv4 and IPv6 reverse zones.Hurricane Electric now offers free DNS hosting. This service provides both native IPv6 and IPv4 authorative nameservice, supports A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, NS, TXT, SRV, and PTR records, as well as IPv4 and IPv6 reverse zones.
IPv6 Professionals Are Migrating Even Without Employer Support
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 members answer a few key questions which when taken together paint an informative picture of the state of IPv6 readiness.
gogoNET members span over 70 countries. When segmented by RIR region: 63% are from RIPE, 22% are from ARIN, 11% are from APNIC, 2% are from LACNIC and 1% are from AfriNIC. The top country from each region is: France with 3,269 members, America with 3,348 members, China with 773 members, Brazil with 213 members and South Africa with 74 members.
Professionals involved in IPv6 migration are: Network Engineers at 18%, System Administrators at 16%, Software Developers at 11%, Consultants at 7%, Management at 6%, Teachers/Researchers at 5% and 37% chose “Other”.
Looking at the overall status of IPv6 migration, 44% are in the testing phase, 30% are researching, 9% are trialing, 4% are deploying, 4% have networks in production and 9% chose “Other”.
When asked which networks are being migrated to IPv6, 70% of professionals are migrating their home networks, followed by 8% migrating fixed broadband networks, 8% migrating research/education networks, 5% migrating enterprise networks, 3% are migrating mobile networks and 5% chose “Other”.
“While alarming, the fact that we are predominantly in the research and testing phases of IPv6 migration is not surprising. What is surprising is that a vast majority of networking professionals are doing this testing on their own time, on their own home networks,” said Bruce Sinclair, gogo6 CEO. “In retrospect this fits the market dynamics we’ve observed. Networking professionals have been trying to convince their management to go v6 for years but the economics didn’t justify it happening. It seems the people who will ultimately do this migration felt strong enough about it to move ahead even without the support of their employers. To me this sends a strong warning to organizations to start their migration today.”
Results are based on a sample size of 12,000 responses - an order of magnitude greater than any other IPv6 survey to date.
About gogoNET
gogoNET is a social network and services for professionals to go v6. Since most network professionals have not used IPv6 nor have been formally educated in it, learning from others is an important way to gain practical IPv6 knowledge. Social networking is has proven to be an excellent way for professionals to share their IPv6 experience and to make contact with others who share similar goals. Additionally, gogoNET provides free IPv6 connectivity, through its Freenet6 service, for members to gain hands-on experience and is a repository for vetted, indexed and recommended IPv6 presentations, videos, documents, books, tweets, blogs and news.
About gogo6
gogo6 connects the world to the new Internet with IPv6 products, community and services. gogoWARE products provide interoperability between IPv4 and IPv6 networks, services, applications and devices, enabling the incremental deployment of IPv6. Its customers today consist mainly of telcos, cable operators, governments and research & education networks such as: AT&T, Verizon, France Telecom, Korea Telecom, DISA, Lockheed Martin, GRNET and Renater. gogoNET is a social network and services for professionals to go v6. It has over 20,000 members and includes the Freenet6 service which provides free IPv6 connectivity. For more information, go to: gogo6.com, or visit us on Twitter, Facebook or YouTube, or email us at: pr@gogo6.com.
Broadband providers & router manufacturers failing to support IPv6
Thinkbroadband called 17 uk broadband service providers a few weeks ago to ask if they supported IPv6 and we were quite surprised by the results to this simple question "Do you support IPv6?"
"Is that a TV channel?"
"I know quite a bit about computers but I've never heard that before."
Read the full article here
new allocations brings IPv4 x-day forward by 5 months
The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) has just allocated regional registries RIPE and APNIC a /8 each this month. For the uninitiated a /8 represents 2 to the power of 24 IP addresses or 167,77,216.
A /8 is the largest block allocation that can be made by IANA and these two have had the effect of bringing forward the x-date, the date for IPv4 exhaustion, by 5 months or so to April 30th 2011.
These blocks are subdivided into smaller subnets for further allocation to ISPs/organisations with smaller requirements such as BT and Timico. Timico has a variety of block allocations ranging from /16 to /20’s.
If you want to know more about IP addressing allocations check out wikipedia. The times they are a changing.
source [ trefor.net ]
Building IPv6 Service Provider Core WebEX
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 a VPN (6VPE). This workshop describes the principles of all three design options and their comparative benefits and drawbacks.
We’ll also discuss Cisco IOS configurations for each of the three design options; you’ll get complete router configurations for a sample PE-router, P-router and BGP route reflector.
Delivery details
The presentation is delivered over the Internet using one of the popular interactive web conferencing platforms, allowing you to ask questions and receive answers in real-time. You'll receive the necessary technical details two days before the delivery date.
Irish IPv6 Summit 2010
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 awareness amongst both public and private sectors on the merits and issues related to the depletion of the IPv4 address space, and the economic impact this has on the Irish Economy. Discover why it is a matter of necessity for Ireland to embrace the early adoption of IPv6.
The keynote speakers are Brian Carpenter (University of Auckland) and Geoff Huston (APNIC). A distinguished panel of speakers and panellists includes: Dennis Jennings (ICANN), Daniel Karrenberg (ISOC and RIPE), Mat Ford (ISOC). The talks will provide global perspectives on IPv6 adoption and challenges, with some localisation to specific issues in Ireland. MÃcheál Ó Foghlú who is Executive Director Research at the TSSG, Waterford IT will chair the event.
This event is supported by the TSSG in Waterford IT, HEAnet, DCENR, Science Foundation Ireland, and the Irish National IPv6 Centre.
For more information about the event, visit the summit website.
NANOG48: SixXS – Trying to Get IPv6 to the User
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 actually works (GRH, Ghost Router Hunter). This will be an overview of what we accomplished the last 8 years and what is yet to come.
