IPv6 News

Although the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) has been calling attention to the expected exhaustion of IPv4 addresses in 2011, it will be difficult to transition to IPv6 as the mainstream IP address assignment over the next several years, according to telecom experts attending a symposium held by the Taiwan Network Information Center (TWNIC) in Taipei on March 30.
Complete info at DigiTimes Systems.

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Sri Lanka’s advanced technological breakthroughs adopted in the telecommunication arena has caught global attention, a fact reflected by next week’s participation of 60 countries at the “Next Generation Networks Standardisation Forum” to be held in Colombo.
Complete info at DailyMirror.

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TM’s R&D arm selects 3Com Core, Edge and Wireless LAN Solution for its ability to offer comprehensive converged networking and security solutions for less.
Complete info at The Nation.

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Motorola Inc. has refreshed its Docsis product roadmap with a new software release that shores up the reliability of its downstream-heavy cable modem termination system (CMTS) module, and a new line of gateways that bring WiFi into the mix.
Complete info at LightReading, EarthTimes and CNN.

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Is the glass half full or half empty? The human reflex of selective deafness to information or arguments countering one’s established believes lives on. The ISOC organized lunchtime IPv6 panel at IETF 74 in San Francisco illustrates the point. The half full perception is exemplified by one write-up on the event, the half-empty by another. A third write-up seems to be the closest to what constitutes objectivity, uncorrected for any confirmation bias of my own.

Natural pessimists continue to hide behind lack of business case, ROI, lack of customer demand, cost, complexity. Mention lack of backward compatibility and it appears under title of “fatal flow for IPv6”, mention a “broccoli approach to IPv6 implementation” and the bias will depend on whether or not one likes broccoli. When forced to swallow, they will probably go on a diet of hard to digest transition technologies and NATcho’s.

Natural optimists see a new world of applications and phenomenal opportunities stirring under the surface of the internet. They integrate IPv6 as part of their network equipment and service upgrade cycles and consider new application domains to satisfy humanity’s insatiable hunger to search, consume, produce and exchange information anytime, anywhere. When Google turned on AAAA’s for Google Maps, IPv6 traffic tripled within days. Trapped underground IPv6 lakes start to break the surface of an increasingly arid and parched IPv4 internet.

Maybe there is a genetic base and evolutionary benefit for our confirmation bias?

Written by Yves Poppe, Director, Business Development IP Strategy

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OKI Electric Industry today announced it has added new functions to its security gateway “CenterStage(R) NX4300″ which is equipped with a translator function to allow communications over different protocols, such as IPv4 and IPv6.
Complete info at StreetInsider, TMCnet and EarthTimes.

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When a small group of university scientists began linking computers on different campus sites at the very end of the 1960s, they had no idea that their work would one day spiral into a globally-accessible network in which the total number of pages is measured in the tens of billions.
Complete info at CNN.

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Sports writers know that every spring they’ll be able to write about the upcoming baseball season, and movie critics know that there always will be new flicks to review. In the same way, tech and telecom reporters and bloggers have the luxury of knowing that there always will be the “When will IPv6 happen?” story to fall back on during days bereft of other news.
Complete article at IT Business Edge.

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The Internet is at crossroads. The current IPv4 address space is nearing exhaustion, while the next-generation IPv6 addressing system dramatically expands the available address space. Yet, to date, it hasn’t been widely deployed.
Complete info at EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet.

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The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in 1995 defined IPv6, the next generation of Internet Protocols that promises to extend the life and expand the functionality of the Internet. IETF envisioned a dual-stack transition in which the new protocols would quickly take over and IPv4 could be shut off.
Complete info at GCN.

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