IPv6 News

Microsoft on Tuesday showed off a pre-beta version of Windows Server 2008 R2 at its Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles.
Complete info at Redmond Developer, Redmond Mag and RCP.

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As we continue our ride toward the exhaustion of IPv4 addresses, Regional Internet Registries public discussion groups such as the ARIN PPML mailing list remain filled with endless discussions on how large swaths of allocated IPv4 addresses are unused, should be reclaimed or recycled one way or another, maybe be put on the free market and sold to the highest bidder or parsed out in more egalitarian controlled ways.
Complete info at CircleID.

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.vantronix | secure systems GmbH, a German vendor of high-end security appliances, entered a partnership with the Tokyo-based company OpenBSD Support Japan Inc.
Complete info at PRLog.

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Unique Network Mapping Technology Captures Rapid Growth; Shows Exponential Expansion of the Internet’s Underlying Infrastructure During Past Decade.
Complete info at PR Newswire and RedOrbit.

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Wireless Network Supports Hops of Nearly Three Miles over Diverse Terrain to Compile Weather Trend and Warning Data.
Complete info at Sys-Con, EarthTimes and IB Times.

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Failure to adopt new generation internet protocol could have a bearing on business innovation.
Complete info at Khaleej Times and TradingMarkets.

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This week’s edition of Risky Business is brought to you by Tenable Network Security and hosted, as always, by Vigabyte virtual hosting.
Complete info at SearchSecurity.

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Today, Microsoft unveiled its work on Windows 7, the successor to Vista, to a crowd at its Professional Developers Conference that was salivating for information on what’s new in the updated operating system. A lot of sites will take you through the whiz-bang consumer-friendly features, but you might be wondering as an IT professional what Windows 7 has to offer you.
Complete info at ComputerWorld, IT World and New York Times.

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The last remaining IPv4 address blocks have been allocated. IP address administrators (the Regional Internet Registries or RIR) of all five regions (AfriNIC, APNic , ARIN, LacNIC and RIPE) have agreed on how the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) should allocate them.
Complete info at Heise.

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Alternate DNS root server, the Open Root Server Network (ORSN) is shutting down. The project which began almost six years ago, is set to close at midnight on the last day of 2008.
Complete info at CircleID.

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