IT administrators are nearly unanimous that a transition to IPv6 is important, and seven out of 10 say their companies will make the jump within the next two years, according to a Network World survey. But only 13% of respondents said they have completed IPv6 deployment on their websites and internal networks, and 16% said they know their hardware and software are compatible with the upgrade.

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/072611-ipv6-survey.html

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The Global IPv6 Deployment survey 2011 between 1/07/2011 – 31/07/2011. This survey is designed by GNKS Consult in collaboration with TNO and RIPE NCC, based on a design originally by ARIN/CAIDA in 2008, and has been carried out in 2009 with the support of RIPE NCC and APNIC, and globally, with support from RIPE NCC, APNIC, ARIN, LACNIC and AfriNIC, in 2010. Over 1500 respondents indicated they would be willing to participate again, this year.

This year, RIPE NCC, the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC), the Latin American and Caribbean Internet Addresses Registry (LACNIC) and the African Network Information Center (AfriNIC) will support this survey for the second time, which allows a comparison with last year’s survey results at global level.

The survey is secure and all data will be kept confidential by GNKS Consult and TNO researchers for analysis on IPv6 deployment by ISPs and other stakeholders in the RIR communities around the world, and only presented in summary form. The data will be made available for analysis to the RIRs as well under these same confidentiality clause. It will take only 15 minutes to fill in the survey.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/GlobalIPv6survey2011

In all likelihood, you won’t even notice the test. The vast majority (99.95%) of people will be able to access services without interruption: either they’ll connect over IPv6, or their systems will successfully fall back to IPv4. However, as with any next-generation technology, there may be teething pains. We estimate that .05% of systems may fail to fall back to IPv4, so some people may find Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Bing and other participating websites slow or unresponsive on World IPv6 Day. This is often due to misconfigured or misbehaving home networking equipment, such as home routers, that can make a computer think it has IPv6 connectivity when in fact it’s not working.

Over the past few months, we’ve been working hard with other industry players to prepare. Operating system vendors and browser manufacturers have been releasing updates to resolve IPv6 connectivity issues—for example, Google Chrome now incorporates workarounds for malfunctioning IPv6 networks—and we’ve seen router manufacturers test their devices for robust IPv6 support as well. For our part, we’ve been busy adding IPv6 support to services that didn’t yet have it, and fixing minor issues with those that did. And since the best way to find bugs in your services is to hammer on them yourself, Google employees have been operating in “World IPv6 Day mode” for several months now.

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Ceremony for Allocation of Last Five /8s

Press Conference

All IPv4 blocks have now been assigned to the RIR’s

179/8	LACNIC
185/8	RIPE NCC
102/8	AfriNIC
103/8	APNIC
104/8	ARIN

IPv4 Blocks left to assign 0

As the end of IPv4 is close a lot of Worldwide Facebook Events are appearing..

IANA IPv4 Pool Exhaustion Day by Kyle Gordon, Тони Стоев

End of IPv4 address pool by Trefor Davies

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Why it’ll make things easier but won’t solve security issues

Why is there so much fuss about IPv6 at the moment? Why do we need it, and what’s it for?
The answers are becoming increasingly important as the pool of IPv4 addresses finally begins to run out.
By this time next year the drought will begin to bite – or so it’s reckoned – but will IPv6 solve any of the problems and exploits currently made possible by IPv4?

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[ Source TechRadar ]

Even though we’re due to run out of IPv4 addresses in the next year, AT&T doesn’t expect enterprises to be fully IPv6-ready when D-Day arrives.

The biggest hurdle for a lot of customers is simply understanding the scope of what has to be done to migrate to IPv6,” says Dale McHenry, the vice president of enterprise networking for AT&T Business Solutions. “There’s just a lot of parts. It’s amazing how broad IP addressing is with all the sub-networks that are active in our own internal systems.”

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[ Source NetworkWorld ]