IPv6 News

Comcast has developed an innovative approach for gradually migrating its customers to the next-generation Internet, and the ISP is promoting this approach to the Internet's leading standards body.
Complete info at NetworkWorld.

Two years ago, the Chinese government adopted a controversial approach known as network address translation to bridge the gap between IPv4, the Internet's main communications protocol, and an emerging Internet standard known as IPv6.
Complete info at NetworkWorld.

In a high-tech twist of irony, the Internet engineering community is adding a feature to IPv6 that the upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol was supposed to eliminate.
Complete info at NetworkWorld.

We posed a few questions to Russ Housley, chair of the Internet Engineering Task Force, about why the standards body is developing network address translations for IPv6 when IPv6 was supposed to eliminate the need for NATs on the Internet. Here's what Housley had to say.
Complete info at NetworkWorld.

It may be years before the new internet protocol IPv6 takes over from the current IPv4, but a security researcher is warning that many systems

If you have enabled IPv6 on your computer, and in an idle moment you've browsed through the interface configuration information for IPv6 addresses you may have been a little surprised by the fact that there's not just one IPv6 address that's been loaded, but many. With IPv4 there was a single address that was bound to each interface, but when using IPv6 its not so clear, and an interface can have a number of IPv6 addresses simultaneously. Its also common to have automatic IPv6 over IPv4 tunnelling interfaces be created, and they also are configured with IPv6 addresses. The result can be impressive in terms of the number of IPv6 addresses that are configured into a single host system. Which IPv6 addresses are useable, and in which context? In this article I'd like to look at the IPv6 address plan, and describe the various address prefixes.

Scotland/Luxembourg, July 14th, 2008 - The IPv6 Forum welcomes Scotland as its newest member with the establishment of IPv6 Task Force Scotland under the leadership of Dr. David Holder, Chair, IPv6 Task Force Scotland.

The prime objective of the IPv6 Task Force and its members is to promote deployment and swifter uptake of the new Internet using the new Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) with support from industry, education, research communities and government agencies enabling equitable access to technology and knowledge,

“The IPv6 Task Force Scotland will try to win key Scottish stakeholders to design an IPv6 Roadmap and create momentum in deploying IPv6 in view of the call of the EU to swiftly adopt IPv6 by 2010″ said Mr. Latif Ladid, IPv6 Forum President.

“The Scottish IPv6 Task Force has very good access to key players from government, industry and academia to coordinate an action plan in view of the imminent integration of IPv6 and deployment in Scotland ” said Dr. David Holder, Chair, IPv6 Task Force Scotland.

The Internet World has been using the Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) for the last two decades. Despite its tremendous success, IPv4 is showing signs of strain especially in its fast depleting IP address space and its growing security concerns. IPv6 preserves everything good in today’s Internet, and adds much more, such as virtually unlimited IP address space to connect everyone and everything, stateless auto-configuration, seamless mobility, mandated security and new optional service levels.

About the IPv6 Task Force Scotland 

The IPv6 Task Force Scotland is a chapter of the IPv6 Forum dedicated to the advancement and propagation of IPv6 in Scotland. Its mission is to provide technical leadership and innovative thought for the successful integration of IPv6 into all facets of networking and telecommunications infrastructure, present and future.

Please visit http://www.ipv6taskforce-scotland.org.uk

About the IPv6 Forum

The IPv6 Forum is a world-wide consortium of international Internet service providers (ISPs) and National Research & Education Networks (NRENs), with a mission to promote IPv6 by improving market and user awareness, creating a quality and secure New Generation Internet and allowing world-wide equitable access to knowledge and technology. The key focus of the IPv6 Forum today is to provide technical guidance for the deployment of IPv6. IPv6 Summits are organized by the IPv6 Forum and staged in various locations around the world to provide industry and market with the best available information on this rapidly advancing technology.

Please visit http://www.ipv6forum.com

European IPv6 task Force: www.ipv6.eu

European Commission IPv6 Communication:

http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/newsroom/cf/itemdetail.cfm?item_id=4133

Organization Contact:
Dr. David Holder
Chair, IPv6 Task Force Scotland
Direct Dial: +44 (0)131 2026317
david.holder@erion.co.uk
IPv6 Forum Contact:
Latif Ladid
Luxembourg
+352 30 71 34
Latif.ladid@ipv6forum.com

Agencies have until the latter part of 2009 to begin operating approximately 79 Internet gateways that will serve the federal government under the Trusted Internet Connection (TIC), Karen Evans, Office of Management and Budget

Samba 3.2 was released today (1st July 2008). Samba 3.2 is the first production version of the popular open source Windows integration product to fully support IPv6.

Erion was instrumental in the development of an IPv6 enabled version of Samba. Erion’s David Holder carried out a number of firsts with the development version of Samba 3.2, including the first ever join of Samba to a Windows Server 2008 Active Directory domain over IPv6.

Further information on Erion’s involvement with Samba and IPv6 can be found in the these blog posts.

The Global IPv6 Summit took place on the 18th and 19th June 2008 in Seoul, Korea. Erion’s David Holder attended and presented a paper entitled IPv6 Enabling Unix-Linux and Windows Integration.

The conference took place at the same time (and venue) as the meeting of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The OECD released a declaration encouraging the deployment of IPv6 to ensure the continued growth of the Internet as IPv4 addresses run out.

There were two major points made by many of the speakers at the conference:

1. IPv4 addresses are running out and the registry pools will be used up by 2011 and maybe as early as 2009.
2. IPv6 is being widely deployed. Many examples of large-scale IPv6 deployment were given.