IPv6 News

The DirectAccess Design Guide is now available and published in the following locations: · As Web articles on TechNet · As a white paper in the Microsoft download center This guide provides information about advantages, disadvantages, requirements, recommendations…(read more)

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In India we saw the Department of Telecommunications take action. Late June the Telecom Engineering Centre organized a seminar where the recommendations for IPv4 to IPv6 transition put forward by the regulator (TRAI) were adopted.

The highlights of the plan reflect a traditional Indian non aggressive but nonetheless forceful persuasion.

• Migration through encouragement rather than through mandate
• Increase awareness of IPv6 deployment through workshops and seminars organized through all relevant agencies through private and public partnership programs.
• Creation of a National Internet Registry in India.
• Government’s procurement of IT systems and networks are to be IPv6 compatible.
• DoT encourages and supports setting up testbeds including one by TEC which is already a certifying agency.
• The international gateways are to be upgraded to support IPv6; IPv4 and IPv6 equipment will coexist for quite some time but all new equipment deployed by end 2010 must support IPv6
• Telecom Equipment manufacturers should make an effort for indigenous production and development of IPv6 compliant equipment .
• The objective is for the Indian Telecom Industry to use the IPv6 migration/transition for competitive advantage developing innovative IPv6 based applications and to provide full featured value added services on IPv6.

New Zealand chose a similar approach: The Government will act by example, not regulation as they said at a recent series of conferences. And in the United States we saw NIST issue the latest version of the IPv6 test program while the Department of Defense issued an update on its IPv6 Standard Profile requirements. The OECD,in the meantime, published its Communications Outlook 2009 with its heavy complement of statistics including the IP address situation.

July saw IETF75 meet in Stockholm and the adequately named ‘Behave Working Group’ spent considerable time on translation between future IPv6 only, dual stack and old IPv4 only devices and networks. Experts also continued to be knotted in NATland where one can even find a NAT66. Will we see a NAT666 one day? Vade retro Natanas!

Written by Yves Poppe, Director, Business Development IP Strategy

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IPv6 is not the only number resource that is running out in
the coming couple of years. The same fate awaits the pool of
Autonomous System numbers, used to support the inter-domain
routing protocol, BGP. In the original design of BGP. In
this article I’d like to update the situation that was
originally reported here some fours years ago, and look at
we are doing about AS Number exhaustion.

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More organizations are using managed security services, where security functions such as vulnerability assessment and network firewall monitoring are offered to clients as a service.
Complete info at IT Business Edge.

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Full IPv6 support, (24) 1GbE Link Ports and (3) 10GbE Connections.
Complete info at ThomasNet.

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BreakingPoint has introduced the latest version of the BreakingPoint Elite testing tool, including more than 30 new features that significantly expand testing capabilities, trim hours from test configuration and reporting, and accelerate device debugging.
Complete info at EarthTimes, 4GWE and PR-Inside.

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With 24 competition items, the most in the history, Shenzhen 2011 Universiade plans to recruit 160,000 volunteers.Relevant party anticipates that there will be 20,000 athletes, coaches and personnel joining in and about 800,000 spectators watching, which will make it the largest pageant with most people in the history of the Universiade.
Complete info at SZCpost.

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Even as more enterprise customers are looking to enhance their interactive-communication services as the economy improves, they’re still watching bottoms line very closely.
Complete info at 4GWE.

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Adoption of new protocol needs to be driven by parliament.
Complete info at V3.

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The American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), a nonprofit that manages the distribution of Internet number resources, has partnered with the Caribbean Telecommunications Union (CTU) to host a series of events developed to raise awareness of Internet Protocol (IP) addressing challenges and policy matters.
Complete info at YachtchartersMagazine and PR-Inside.

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