IPv6 News

USA-Canada World Championship hockey games never fail to elicit great excitement. In the IPv6 adoption world league however, the US seems to have a convincing lead over their northern neighbour but the game is not over yet, here come the Canucks.

Internet evolution, and IPv6 in particular, were the major themes at the ISACC (ICT Standards Advisory Council of Canada) Plenary meeting in Ottawa mid April. Presentation of the Government of Canada IPv6 transition Strategy, including timelines, was undoubtedly the highlight of the day. Leveraging the Australian Government IPv6 transition model, the Canadian Federal Government envisages three phases in the transition; preparation (jan 2009- dec 2010), transition (jan 2011-dec 2013) and implementation (January 2014-dec 2015).

Surprising? Not really. In its quiet ways , Canada has pioneered IPv6 since its early days. Canarie, Canada’s national Research and Education Network, co-funded the Chicago 6TAP while the Canadian freenet6 tunneling service has provided more than 150,000 IPv6 over IPv4 tunnels and was, for a while, the world’s premier IPv6 transit point. The first intercontinental native IPv6 connectivity was tried out between the CRC in Ottawa and Berkom in Berlin, Germany, back in 1998. Teleglobe, now part of Tata Communications, became founding member of the IPv6 Forum in 1999 and has been offering commercial IPv6 connectivity since 2004.

The Government’s IPv6 mettle will likely be tested in the upcoming GENS Government Enterprise Network Services calls for tender. The goal is ambitious with the consolidation and convergence of the Government’s current 124 separate networks. Some laggards on the network and equipment supply side will likely lobby to say that IPv6 is not that urgent and that they will support it in the future anyways while some consultants will see, in many years of transition, many years of contracts.

Some of us, in the discussion period at the Ottawa ISSAC plenary, emphasized the need for some early measurable deliverables such as IPv6 accessibility of selected public Government websites. Interesting to note that ARIN’s most recent letter [PDF], to ISP CEO’s, also considers publicly accessible resources such as external web servers and e-mail servers a logical place to start.

The IPv6 puck rebounds, is passed from behind the internet, he shoots, he ….

Written by Yves Poppe, Director, Business Development IP Strategy

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Japan may be home to a high amount of cellular internet users – 87 per cent of the country’s 106 cellphone users go online – but that does not faze Takeshi Tanaka, president of UQ Communications, which is gearing up to launch commercial mobile WiMAX services on July 1, 2009.
Complete info at Telecoms.

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Thomson has gained DOCSIS 3.0 and/or EuroDOCSIS 3.0 certifications for some of its cable modems and VoIP gateways.
Complete info at Cable360 and CableFax.

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The largest global trade association working against spam and messaging abuse continued its fifth consecutive year of significant growth, despite the economic downturn.
Complete info at IT News Online, TMCnet and NewsWire.

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Sterling Commerce, an AT&T Inc company, today announced Sterling Integrator 5.0 (formerly Gentran Integration Suite), the next generation of its market-leading, flexible integration solution.
Complete info at EarthTimes, StreetInsider and CNN.

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This week the 2nd annual 2009 Rocky Mountain IPv6 Summit was held in Denver Colorado. This event is put on by the Rocky Mountain IPv6 Task Force and the University of Denver. The IPv6 Summit is a 2-day IPv6 educational event that is FREE to attend. While well over 400 people registered for the event, the event attracted 300 people over the two days.
Complete info at NetworkWorld.

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The role of information and communications technology (ICTs) in boosting global economic recovery plus the greening and convergence of ICTs were made top issues of the 4th World Telecom Policy Forum (WTPF) in Lisbon held on 22-24 April.
Complete info at IP-Watch.

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The information security industry deserves credit for recent high-profile wins against major security flaws and malicious attackers, according to one expert, but there’s no question that when it comes to cyberwarfare, targeted attacks and digital terrorism, the worst is yet to come.
Complete info at SearchSecurity.

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Parvus Corporation will preview its new DuraMAR 3230 rugged mobile router at the Navy League Sea Air Space Exposition being held at the Gaylord National Resort, National Harbor, Maryland May 4-6.
Complete info at EarthTimes, MarketWatch and PR-Inside.

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The American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) board of trustees has decided to start contacting the CEOs of IPv4 block holders advising them that IPv4 addresses will be depleted within the next 2 years and that they should move over to IPv6.
Complete info at Neowin.

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