IPv6 News

BreakingPoint unveiled today new capture and recreate functionality that enables QA and R&D engineers to more efficiently conduct 10GigE testing.
Complete info at EarhtTimes, Sys-Con and PR-Inside.

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At the recent ISOC Asia conference in Kuala Lumpur a rather innocuous coffee break question was raised: could any one around the table name some of the major Top-Level Domains (TLDs) still delinquent in their IPv6 support? Nobody could answer on the spot but the question intrigued me.

A logical place to start looking for an answer was ICANN. Their Kim Davies provided a rather revealing perspective in a presentation at ICANN 34 in april. 41% of the 280 existing TLDs did not provide any IPv6 connectivity and more than 68% did without any diversity. Even for IPv4 it was surprising to see that 7.2% of TLDs do not provide diversity, contrary to IANA rules. Two name servers separated by geography and topology are required and the same applies for IPv6 (gTLD applicant guidebook).

IANA provides a list of all legitimate TLDs. including the recent fancy additions like .museum and the like.

Hurricane’s Mike Leber’s IPv6 deployment progress report, which is updated daily, provided another piece of the puzzle. When correlated to the IANA list, bingo, the culprits became visible, many obscure but a number of them rather out of place in this set. To refine the model, the title of Top Level Delinquent could be bestowed on the TLD with the largest number of domain names allocated under its ‘top’.

As ICANN and IANA can only do so much to enforce rules and regulations, an independent, up to date shame list, pillory of the cyber age, might help delinquents recognize themselves and also expose potential weak points in the internet. To give recognition to top performers on the other hand, why not create a TTLD honour roll for TLDs who have 3 or more IPv6 authorities?

Oh yes, 9.6% of TLDs still had open recursive name servers. Safe bet that some failed the grade in both the IPv6 and open recursivity categories oblivious of another Kaminsky type attack.

Progress is being made but to accelerate on the road of IP convergence and instill more confidence in the ‘public internet’, some additional discipline in the Domain Name area, starting with the top and working its way down, would certainly not hurt.

Written by Yves Poppe, Director, Business Development IP Strategy

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Less than one year from now, agencies across the Federal Government face a new deadline: On July 2010, all new equipment and software for federal computer networks must be compliant with the IPv6 internet protocol.
Complete info at FederalNewsRadio.

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Late last year, the software engineers developing a new Windows-based networking client confronted an all-too-common problem in today’s hostile internet environment: How would they make their software resistant to the legions of enemies waiting to attack it? Particularly worrisome was a key feature of their code, a mechanism to accept updates online. If it were subverted, an attacker could slip his own program into an installed base of millions of machines.
Complete info at Wired.

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With System z mainframe revenues down 39 per cent – and MIPS mainframe capacity shipments off 20 percent in the second quarter – IBM is keen on boosting mainframe sales. And it wants to use Linux as a lever.
Complete info at ChannelRegister.

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Knowledge of the structure of Internet Protocol (IP) packets is a fundamental part of understanding the Internet and how information moves from one point to another.
Complete info at ComputerWorld.

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The first test specifications for IPv6 compliance, which will be required for government networking procurements beginning in July 2010, were reviewed by vendors and testing labs at a hands-on event this month at the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory.
Complete info at GCN.

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In a new video released today, Google has reaffirmed its commitment to IPv6 and shared some tips on how to make migration to the new protocol as painless as possible.
Complete info at V3 and ComputerWeekly.

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Enterasys, the network infrastructure and security division of Siemens Enterprise Communications Group, today announced that the Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) is leveraging the built-in security of Enterasys networking solutions to provide a unified communications platform for its 320 staff members using 650 networked devices, including laptops, PCs, MFDs and VoIP phones.
Complete info at Live-PR, PR-Inside and TMCnet.

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Complete info at BusinessWire and Sys-Con.

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