ipv6

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 [...]

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 [...]

NANOG48 : IPv6 Link Numbering Panel

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

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 [...]

2009 IPv6 Address Use Report

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

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

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

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 [...]

Enable IPv6 for your IPv4 website with IPv6Proxy.nl

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 [...]

Cisco, Juniper conduct trial of fed’s IPv6 tests

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. [...]