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 address space by country. Both these pages are updated weekly from the delegation data that the RIRs publish on their FTP servers.
The full report is here
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 Android platform for mobile devices. For example, if a Verizon Droid user connects to a Wi-Fi network with IPv6, the user will be able to connect to IPv6 Web sites.
Next up for Google’s IPv6 development team is YouTube.
“YouTube is the IPv6 team’s number one priority right now,†says Erik Kline, IPv6 software engineer at Google. “We haven’t said anything about the timeframe for that yet.â€
Google admits it isn’t seeing much IPv6 traffic yet on the Web services it has enabled so far.
“It’s somewhere on the order of the 0.2% range of Google users have IPv6 access,†says Lorenzo Colitti, network engineer at Google. “Around 40% of that traffic is native. We’ve seen healthy growth in the last year.â€
Source [ NetworkedWorld ]
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 are ready to go!
The dutch weblog GeenStijl has IPv6 connectivity while hosting at a network provdider who only has a ipv4 network. Well they use the exact same system, and according to the guys over at Prolocation.net who maintain the Proxy, GeenStijl was the first of many more big sites to come that will run dualstack.
So, if you’ve a website called “www.example.comâ€, you should add the following DNS entry to the DNS zone of example.com:
“www.example.com AAAA 2a00:d00:ff:131:94:228:131:131″
So visit IPv6Proxy.nl add your domain name and start running your website dualstack!
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. All routers, hosts and network security systems must pass the USGv6 Test Program by July 2010 in order to be sold to U.S. federal agencies.
Source [ NetworkWorld ]
Agencies should plan now to enable IPv6 on public-facing servers
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 American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN).
Or it might be in just 657 days; it depends on whose countdown clock you use. The point is, given the current rate of Internet growth, in about two years all new address assignments will be made with IPv6 addresses.'
Source [ GCN ]
Smart grid is a way to push US IPv6 upgrade
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.
Source [ InternetNews ]
Security will not come naturally with IPv6
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 hide data on your network, and the hackers already are learning to take advantage of this.
Source [ Nextgov ]
Hurricane Electric Network Expansion & IPv6 Deployment Growth
* 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 Zurich
You are welcome to log in and reconfigure your tunnel if you like.
Chosing a closer tunnel server will improve your performance. You will
receive a different /64 and /48 if you chose to do this.
* IPv6 Deployment Growth
The global IPv6 routing table has passed 2000 IPv6 prefixes.
There are now over 1500 IPv6 glue records in the TLD zone files. The
addition of IPv6 glue records at the TLD level is a good gauge of
hosting infrastructure IPv6 growth, since it indicates operational
commitment on the part of individual nameserver operators.
Source: http://bgp.he.net/ipv6-progress-report.cgi
* New Exchange Point Connections
We have added exchange point connections to Equinix Tokyo, NETNOD,
SOLIX, and Equinix Zurich.
Where ever possible, we prefer native IPv6 BGP sessions with your
network directly on our core routers at any facilities we have in common
or via any exchange points we might have in common.
IPv6 Presentations
- 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, Will It Help or Hurt Our Security?
- David Farmer (University of Minnesota), IPv4 "End-of-Life" Proposals in the RIRs
- Mitsuru Kanda (University of Southern California/ISI), IPv6 Transition Experience
- David Meyer (Cisco Systems/University of Oregon), It's The End Of The World As We Know It (aka "The New Internet Architecture")
- Fred Baker (Cisco), IPv4/IPv6 Coexistence and Transition
Source [ BCNet ]
Juniper Networks new ipv6 features in E-Series
Juniper Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: JNPR), the leader in high-performance networking, today announced new features on the E Series Broadband Service Router. Newly introduced features for the E Series include an advanced line module for the E320 Broadband Services Router and multiple IPv6 features that enhance existing service delivery capabilities.
The new IPv6 features for the E Series help promote seamless scaling with IPv6 support for dynamic subscriber interfaces, in-service software upgrades and DHCPv6 local pools for dynamic IPv6 address assignment over Ethernet. These new features work in conjunction with a broad set of currently supported IPv6 Broadband Service Routing features, including a unique 'dual-stack' IPv6 and IPv4 capability, which facilitates increased investment protection migration to new, advanced revenue-generating services.
Source : [ Juniper Press Release ]
