IPv6 News

Some of you may have been wondering how TXv6TF would be impacted by the merger of The Planet (our official hosting provider since TXv6TF started) and SoftLayer. The news is outstanding. SoftLayer will continue to provide TXv6TF with hosting services, just as The Planet did. However, it gets even better. The new site is now [...]

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Is IPv6 a robust as IPv4? What proportion of IPv6 connections
“fail”? And what causes such connection failures? These questions
were raised in a discussion at RIPE 61 in November 2010. The general
conclusion appeared to be that using auto-tunnelling techniques to
patch up an IPv6 connection was generally thought to be worse than
just allowing the connection to be made using IPv4. It has been
observed that various forms of mis-configuration and local traffic
filters create asymmetric failure conditions for some clients. It is
generally believed that this connection “failure” is sufficiently
prevalent with IPv6 auto-tunnelling that it constitutes sufficient
grounds to warn against using 6to4 at all! So how bad is it?

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The National Institute of Standards and Technology issued two special publications Wednesday: SP 800-119, Guidelines for the Secure Deployment of IPv6 and SP 800-135, Recommendation for Application-Specific Key Derivation Functions.
Complete info at GovInfoSecurity.

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The coming of IPv6 seemed to be the hottest topic in IP transit in 1995 and now, nearly 16 years later, we have gotten almost numb to the mention of IPv6 even though broad scale adoption still has not occurred.
Complete info at TMCnet.

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More than 2,500 Attendees and Record-Setting Number of Presentations Combine to Make the Premier International Meeting the Most Successful in Conference History.
Complete info at RF Globalnet.

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Vendor-neutral testing and certification firm ICSA Labs offers its thoughts on the security landscape spanning 2010 and 2011.
Complete info at HNS.

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2010 was a busy year for networking professionals with market shifts debuting that will impact networking for years to come.
Complete info at Enterprise Networking Planet.

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The IPv4 address range is likely to run out in early 2011. IPv6 offers a far greater number of addresses, but it is incompatible with IPv4.
In this video, industry experts discuss what IT leaders should be doing today on this issue.
More from Computing…

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Cloudmark advises you block inbound mail from IPv6 addresses unless known.
Complete info at Dr.Dobbs.

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The world is running out of Internet addresses — possibly as soon as next summer there will be none left, and then we have a problem, says the head of the European authority that assigns them.
Complete info at TechEurope.

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