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
A Black Market for IP Addresses?
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
Source [ www.geeksaresexy.net ]
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 ]
End of IPv4 Address Pool Party
Trefor Davies is arranging a "End of IPv4 address pool"
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.
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=261183036294
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.
Regional Internet Registries Conducting Internet Community Consultation on ITU IPv6 CIR Proposal
Open Letter from APNIC
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 expertâ€, 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)
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.
