IPv6 News

Information Systems & Technology (IST) has announced changes to on-campus wireless networking in response to its increasing usage.
Complete info at Uwaterloo.

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Carl Weinschenk spoke to John Curran, the president and CEO of the American Registry for Internet Numbers. ARIN recently said that only about 10 percent of IPv4 addresses are unassigned. A looming challenge for the Internet is that the initial addressing scheme – Internet Protocol version 4 – is close to exhaustion.
Complete article at IT Business Edge.

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Comcast is seeking volunteers to help it with the upcoming transition to IPv6 addresses, an inevitable shift as the supply of the current IPv4 addresses runs out.
Complete info at PC Mag.

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As expected, Comcast is beginning to move forward with formal trials of IPv6, the next iteration of Internet protocol, one of the first large service providers to commit to what is increasingly being viewed as a transition that can no longer be put off.
Complete info at Connected Planet.

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You need a new router, but your budget is in shambles. On top of that, someone tells you IPv4 addresses are running out. Great, what’s the smart thing to do?
Complete info at TechRepublic.

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Comcast is asking for volunteers to participate in its upcoming IPv6 trials. The cable ISP has been participating in IPv6 circles for a long time and with its huge subscriber base, it is experiencing the IPv4 address scarcity first-hand.
Complete article at ars technica.

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This week, the Number Resource Organisation (NRO), the official representative of the five Regional Internet Registries and who oversees the allocation of IP addresses, announced that less than 10 percent of IPv4 addresses remain unallocated. Although this should be a concern for all who use the Internet, the numbers (and letters) are often glossed over, with everyone assuming that it’s someone else’s responsibility to fix it. But if it’s not addressed in the near future, the ramifications could be huge.
Complete info at InfoQ.

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The internet’s technical governing body plans to make a push to educate the global users of the internet on the network’s latest generation technology known as IPv6, Rod Beckstrom, president and CEO of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), said this week.
Complete info at IP-Watch, Internet Ad Sales and SoftPedia.

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The world will run out of IPv4 addresses in late 2011 and must quickly move to its successor, IPv6, according to the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC).
Complete info at SearchNetworking.

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With the participation of some of the industry’s largest ISPs, email providers and Internet companies, the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG) is focusing on how to better protect the end user from spam, bots and other messaging exploitations during its February meeting in San Francisco.
Complete info at EarthTmes, IT News Online and StreetInsider.

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