IPv6 adoption is speeding up
Oct 21st
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
Oct 17th
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
Sep 22nd
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. [...]
Agencies should plan now to enable IPv6 on public-facing servers
Sep 19th
American Registry for Internet Numbers president expects federal mandate soon for agencies to begin enabling new protocols on public-facing Web servers
The pool of available IPv4 addresses will be completely allocated in the not-too-distant future.
“It will happen 717 days from today, around 2 in the afternoon, just before tea time,” said John Curran, president of the [...]
Smart grid is a way to push US IPv6 upgrade
Sep 19th
WHILE EVERYONE in the US is enthusiastic about plans to upgrade the nation’s electric power infrastructure to a ’smart grid’ there could be a spinoff benefit for Internet IPv6 adoption.
According to Internet News, Cisco has started its own smart grid push as an effort to peddle its products.
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Security will not come naturally with IPv6
Sep 19th
The next generation of Internet Protocols has some security features built into it, but IPv6 is not inherently more secure than the current IPv4 now in use, said Brett Thorson, network and security architect at Excivity and a security adviser to the North American IPv6 Task Force. IPv6 can be used to block, shield and [...]
Who Put the IPv6 in my Internet?
Sep 12th
Craig Labovitz from Arbor Networks has written a good article on IPv6
Who Put the IPv6 in my Internet?
About this time last year, we released a study on the state of IPv6 deployment in the Internet. Our August 2008 paper found diminishingly small traces of IPv6 — less than one hundredth of 1% of Internet traffic.
This [...]
EPF4 IPv6 Discussion Panel
Sep 12th
AMS-IX, DE-CIX, LINX and NETNOD are hosting the fourth European Peering Forum on 14 and 15th September in Copenhagen, Denmark. NETNOD has joined the host team for the first time in 2009 and is taking the lead in the organisation for this year.
The unique event will bring together around 200 individuals from our respective [...]
Hurricane Electric Network Expansion & IPv6 Deployment Growth
Sep 12th
* Hurricane Electric has expanded to Tokyo, Stockholm, and Zurich
Hurricane Electric now connects over 500 IPv6 networks and announces over
1000 IPv6 customer prefixes.
Hurricane Electric has over 4500 BGP sessions with over 1100 IPv4 and
IPv6 networks at 29 different exchange points in North America, Europe,
and Asia.
Updated network map:
http://he.net/Hurricane_Electric_Geographic_Network_Map.jpg
* New tunnel servers live in Tokyo, Stockholm, and [...]
IPv6 Presentations
Sep 9th
Tony Hain (Cisco), Confronting the Reality of Emotional Denial and Grief
Sean Siler (Microsoft), IPv6 Application Efforts within Microsoft
Fred Wettling (Bechtel),Enterprise Challenges in Global IPv6 Implementation
Joe Klein (IPv6 Security Researcher), IPv6 Security
KK Chittimaneni (Google), Enterprise IPv6 at Google
Igor Gashinsky (Yahoo), IPv6 at Yahoo!
Angus Lees (Google), Global IPv6 Statistics
Joe St Sauver (Internet2), If We Deploy IPv6, [...]
