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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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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From its humble beginnings a few decades ago, the Internet has experienced explosive growth due to the rise in personal computers as well as other connected devices such as mobile phones and gaming consoles. It forms an integral part of our daily lives and many of us can no longer imagine a world without email, search and online shopping.

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Both Ipv6 and Ipv4 are Internet protocols for addresses. This means that each of them is a numerical system which allows each computer connected to the internet to be recognized by a specific IP address. This is an essential role for the internet since computers communicate using numbers rather than names. Yet, humans have developed the DNS (domain name system) to solve the problems associated with interacting with the Internet Protocols. In fact, domain names are simply alpha-numerical combinations stored in specific servers and each pointing to a specific IP address.

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Microsoft Australia’s Web platform evangelist, Jorke Odolphi, said whole industries were currently viewing IPv6 as “a bit too hard” and were unsure of how the next generation protocol worked.

“There’s been a lot of talk about IPv4 being depleted and reached exhaustion, saying the internet is getting full and that’s one way of thinking about it,” Odolphi said.

“I believe the problem comes down to application developers and people who are running software that has hard coded tendencies on IPv4. When we actually start to run into these problems, there’s going to be a whole bunch of applications that need to be updated and that’s going to be a big challenge for IT in Australia and developers.”

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This is a serious large scale real event to celebrate a major milestone in the history of the internet. Because the organiser lives in the UK the first location will be in the UK. However I anticipate that others will want to organise their own events and link up.

I see no reason whatsoever why we can't create a global event linked, with the support of the world's internet community, via video, IM, social networks and many as yet unthought of media.

The theme will develop as we approach the time. The actual date of the party is to be confirmed and is based on the moving goal post of the exhaustion of the IP address pool of the Regional Internet Registries. The current planned date is 7th September 2011.

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Regional Internet Registries Conducting Internet Community Consultation on ITU IPv6 CIR Proposal

The Regional Internet Registries are conducting a Internet community consultation process regarding the recent ITU IPv6 Country Internet Registry (CIR) proposal. In collaboration with the other Regional Internet Registries, APNIC hosted a special session at APNIC 29 / APRICOT 2010 to give the global Internet Community an opportunity to discuss the issues and ramifications of the alternative model proposed by the ITU.

For those interested in the outcome of the recent face-to-face session, a raw transcript and session summary statement are available here:

http://meetings.apnic.net/29/program/consultation

I’d like to thank APNIC for hosting this session as it is important to discuss these issues publicly in timely manner so that input can be brought to the the March 15-16 ITU IPv6 study group meeting in Geneva. By having a public discussion of these important issues, APNIC (as an ITU-D sector member) can submit the outcome for further consideration in this process.

While the ITU IPv6 study group is a closed meeting, I have received an invitation to participate on March 15-16 in Geneva on ARIN’s behalf as an “invited expert”, and at that session I will focus on the comments covered in the public consultation that was just held. If you have additional input on this topic that you would like to have considered, please review session materials and then contact your regional internet registry, or your organization/company/government ITU representative if you are aware of one. I will also take comments on the CIR proposal until the ITU IPv6 study group meeting start on 15 March, and will try to do my best to convey the input received.

As you can tell, we’re attempting to be as accommodating as possible to the ITU as they explore the issues in this area, and their processes are significantly different than Internet Registry System regarding how input is received and considered. At this point, ARIN considers it very important to support these educational efforts, and hope that it will result in better overall understanding of the success that is today’s Internet Registry System.

I hope this post helps the Internet community understand where we are in this interesting process.

Thank you for your feedback and support!

Written by John Curran, President and CEO at American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)

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The IPv6 Forum IPv6 Enabled Logo Program (http://www.ipv6forum.org/ipv6_enabled/) objective is to encourage and accelerate deployment of IPv6 and the adoption of IPv6 by web site owners and ISPs.

The IPv6 Forum IPv6 Ready program clearly demonstrates the widespread (exponential growth) support of IPv6 in products. This impressive list of vendors indicates the number of potential IPv6 users ready to use IPv6 and represent a real incentive for web site owners to enable IPv6 and for various service providers (such as ISPs, ASPs and CSPs) to provide IPv6 enabled service for their customers.

The IPv6 Enabled Logo Program is a program intended to increase user confidence by demonstrating that IPv6 is available now and is ready to be used.

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