IPv6 News

At its November 5th plenary, the Canadian ICT Standards Advisory Committee approved the recommendations of the Canadian IPv6 Task Group set up by isacc in april. The 50 members of the Task Group were invited to individually produce a list of seven recommendations. Received inputs were collated, debated, ranked and ultimately distilled down to a pair of quite straightforward recommendations for immediate action: mandate support of IPv6 in Federal Government ICT procurements and set up a IPv6 Centre of Excellence with the help of Government, Industry and the Research and Education Community.

Later in the month, the Canadian approach was also presented at the 4th African IPv6 Summit held in conjunction with the Afrinic Conference in Dakar, Senegal and generated a lot of interest and discussion.

A participant commented on the Centre of Excellence approach as well as the African continent wide IPv6 training initiatives by Afrinic and the IPv6 information sites such as RIPE’s recently announced IPv6actnow. What was missing, she said, was a group of ‘Médecins IPv6 sans Frontières’ to help write or review the IPv6 requirements when Government entities or private sector companies prepare or update calls for tender for ICT equipment or services and eventually to help evaluate the responses. Even the best IPv6 website and IPv6 training does not fill this void. To rely on current equipment suppliers has drawbacks and their often expensive professional services to help with a network audit and recommendations are hard to justify. Consequently IPv6 requirements are too often put on the backburner.

This reminded me of a coffee break comment by a participant at the Ottawa plenary early november: He felt the need for his company to go forward with IPv6 but they were not sure what to put in their tender document while their service provider told them that there was not really that much urgency or need to hurry.

IPv6 Medics without Borders could indeed be a useful component of the Canadian IPv6 Centre of Excellence.

Wishing you all a happy and prosperous jump into the next decade.

Written by Yves Poppe, Director, Business Development IP Strategy

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Edge-Core, the professional End-to-End network solution provider, announces that its new L3 Fast Ethernet Switch, ES3628BT, has meet all compliance and interoperability requirements from the IPv6 Forum and received IPv6-Ready Core Phase-2 Logo Certification.
Complete info at PRLog, SkyNewswire and PR.com.

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Will promote the next generation internet protocols in Hawaii.
Complete info at The University of Hawaii.

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Microsoft is finally starting to explain the “plus” in its software-plus-services plan with the first slate of technologies to support integration of the cloud and existing IT resources.
Complete info at ComputerWorld, PC World and ARNnet.

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Over the next three weeks, TMCnet will examine the next generation Internet Protocol standard, “IPv6” – the transition to it, its advantages over IPv4, why companies should care about it and what experts from one company, NTT America, have to say about the way IPv6 is being addressed in different nations around the world.
Complete info at TMCnet.

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Itron Inc. announced today its support for a future smart grid standard under development from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Itron fully anticipates that its OpenWay smart grid solution, including currently delivered hardware and operational software components, can support full compliance with both the mandatory and optional specifications of IEEE’s Task Group 802.15.4g (TG4g) Smart Utility Network (SUN) proposed standard.
Complete info at TMCnet.

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Pragma Systems, a leading provider of enterprise-class remote access and security software for Microsoft Windows, announced that its Pragma Fortress SSH Server, Pragma Telnet Server and Pragma Fortress SSH ClientSuite now fully support Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) and have attained “Compatible with Windows 7″ certification status from Microsoft Corp. Introduced in this updated release are customer-recommended, significant product enhancements such as an option of running in FIPS 140-2 mode and use of a new Pragma Cryptographic library to consolidate all cryptographic and encryption functions.
Complete info at e-releases, IT News Online and EarthTimes.

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Google has announced plans to implement ipv6 on YouTube.
networkworld.com gives some extra information about Google’s plans with IPv6:
Google already supports IPv6 with its Search, Alerts, Docs, Finance, Gmail, Health, iGoogle, News, Reader, Picasa, Maps and Wave products.
Google’s Chrome operating system — whose source code was released this week — supports IPv6, as does its [...]

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JAWUG investigates public addresses for wireless user groups.
Complete info at MyBroadband.

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Hurricane Electric, a Fremont, Calif., ISP, will announce on Monday that its IPv6 network has doubled in size in less than a year — a sign of how rapidly IPv6 traffic is increasing across the Internet.
Complete info at NetworkWorld, ComputerWorld and The Standard.

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