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Irish IPv6 Summit 2010

admin — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 23:02:51 +0000

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. Mícheál 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

admin — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:32:37 +0000

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.

Jereon Massar Presentation

NANOG48 : IPv6 Link Numbering Panel

admin — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:14:56 +0000

NANOG48 : IPv6 Link Numbering Panel

Ron Bonica, Juniper Networks; Panelist: Igor Gashinsky, Yahoo!

The Road To IPv6 Is Paved With NATs

admin — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:13:28 +0000

Even though IPv6 adoption is dangerously slow, we will see adoption eventually. There are three main sections of the Internet that need to handle IPv6. The Internet networking equipment like routers, proxies and firewalls, and services like DNS and routing need to support IPv6 so that clients can talk to servers that users are connecting to from giants like Google and Amazon to smaller web, email and other hosts. Then, there are the enterprise and consumer products that will connect to Internet hosts. The question remains how to deliver IPv6 services in a non-disruptive manner to consumers in homes, small businesses and enterprises, all of whom can’t control either the content being provided or the consumers visiting that content.

To this point, IPv6 adoption on the broader Internet remains in its infancy. The 2,500 IPv6 prefixes announced today on the Internet are a fraction of the 300,000 IPv4 announcements, says Earl Zmijewski, vice president and general manager at Renesys. What’s more, most of these IPv6 announcements are run by research institutions, he says.

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[ Source Network Computing ]

IPv4 Runs Low Faster Than IPv6 Is Adopted

admin — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:10:59 +0000

According to engineers at Hurricane Electric and iNetcore, by mid September, 2011, the Internet registries are expected to run out of routable IP addresses to assign.

On the Seinfeld episode, “The Dealership,” Kramer takes a test drive. The salesman asks about gas and Kramer responds, “There’s still some overlap between the needle and the slash below the “E”…I’ve been in the slash many times. This is nothing. You’ll get used to it.”

We’ll be approaching “the slash” soon enough as addresses for users, hosts and devices will suddenly become a scarce resource. While 2012 apocalyptic visions aren’t expected, the problem remains serious. Migrating to IPv6 is the leading approach, with its much larger address space of a little more than 340 trillion addresses. IPv6 could also introduce a number of engineering headaches for enterprises and consumers.

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Source [ Network Computing ]

2009 IPv6 Address Use Report

admin — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 20:38:38 +0000

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

admin — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:25:03 +0000

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.”

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.”

Source [ NetworkedWorld ]

How to assign IPv6 address

admin — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:04:45 +0000

In IPv6 the address space and their by length of the IP address has increases 4 times and this makes assigning and maintaining IP addresses statically or on a DHCP pool difficult. To solve this problem the auto-configuration has been introduced in IPv6. This video explains different ways in which IPv6 terminal can be given addresses…

1. Manual
2. Autonomous
3. Semi-Autonomous
4. Stateless server
5. Stateful server

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Source [ SecurityTube.net ]

Peering Disputes Migrate to IPv6

admin — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 05:50:40 +0000

Disputes over peering, which have quickly made the jump from IPv4 to IPv6.

Complaints of a “broken IPv6 Internet” emerged last week on the North American Network Operators Group mailing list, which surfaced a peering issue involving IPv6 connections between Hurricane Electric and Cogent Communications.

While Hurricane Electric pointed the finger at Cogent, it has also extended an olive branch. Leber’s NANOG post commented that “we stop short of baking cakes” to encourage peering. But at this week’s NANOG 47 meeting in Dearborn, Mich., Hurricane Electric presented a cake inscribed with an invitation to Cogent to peer with HE over IPv6.

IPv6 adoption is speeding up

admin — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:53:44 +0000

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 first nine months of this year, ARIN said it received 300 requests from service providers for IPv6 address space blocks. Conversely, ARIN received only 250 IPv6 requests throughout 2007 and 2008. “We’re seeing an uptick in IPv6 address space requests; it’s a very significant growth rate,” says John Curran, president and CEO of ARIN. “We’ve seen a slight slowdown in IPv4 address space requests… It’s probably dropped off 10 percent or 20 percent year over year.”

Source [ Fiberism ]