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Multiple Source’s [ Jason Livingood | John Brzozowski | Mike Hughes ]

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

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

World IPv6 Day will allow us to better understand how our infrastructure and code perform under IPv6 while minimizing impact on our users. Since January, we’ve conducted several studies and tests of our own and have gained even greater confidence that our site is ready for IPv6. We anticipate that 99.97% of users will not be affected at all. The small number of users who may be affected may find that pages are slow to load and we are working to minimize the impact.

Of course, we will be prepared to address any issues as they come up. Our Help Center has instructions and more information for users who may be affected.

We are encouraged by the overwhelming response of the hundreds of major organizations who have signed up to participate on World IPv6 Day.

Check back here June 9 to see how the test went.

www.worldipv6day.org

Lee is Facebook’s lead engineer on IPv6, or Internet Protocol version 6, the first new version of the Internet’s addressing system in decades, which will provide trillions and trillions more unique addresses on the Web. Every time you go online or print a document at work, you’re essentially dialing a unique number–called an IP address–to communicate with other devices and computer networks. It’s no different than visiting a friend: You might know the name of his apartment building, but you’ll need an address and zip code in order to locate it on a map. The Web works in the same way, but as the number of homes and businesses and devices connected to the Internet continues to increase exponentially, we’re rapidly running out of space online. And now it’s up to Internet giants such as Facebook, Google, and Yahoo to fix the problem before it’s too late.

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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.

Source : [ Google Blog ]

Registration before May 15th is $197, and yields immediate access to the first two video lessons, with the other four becoming accessible on the 15th:

IPv6 features and benefits
IPv6 addressing
IPv6 headers
ICMPv6 – Why is this important?
Stateless and stateful autoconfiguration
A basic configuration of IPv6 on routers and desktop computers

The videos also come with downloadable MP3s and PDF transcripts. Brandon is an excellent trainer, and with World IPv6 Day less than a month away this is precisely the type of training some networkers need to finally make the push toward IPv6.

More informationhttp://myipv6tutor.com/