IPv6 News

An IPv4 corporate network is simply not enough. When your employees travel with mobile devices, they are likely to encounter wireless access points and 3G networks that assign only IPv6 addresses.
Complete info at BaseLine.

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REMEMBER the panic over the “millennium bug”, when computers everywhere were expected to go haywire on January 1st 2000 thanks to the way a lot of old software used just two digits to represent the year instead of four?
Complete info at The Economist.

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The last big blocks of the net’s dwindling stock of addresses are about to be handed out.
Complete info at BBC, GBC and BioScholar.

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In the coming week, the global authority that allocates internet addresses is expected to run out of stock.
Complete info at ABC News.

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FireBrick, a totally UK based company, are taking on the big boys with the launch of their ISP grade network routers designed to help ISPs take on the challenge of the IPv6 Internet.
Complete info at Benzinga, MalaysiaSun and PR-USA.

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Don’t Let a Bad Design Sabotage Your Deployment Project.
Complete info at NetworkWorld.

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Remember Y2K? The internet today is facing a similarly big problem all over again, but nobody knew exactly when it would hit — until now.
Complete info at Builder and ZDNet.

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There are a few culprits that regularly contribute to delayed or failed IPv6 deployment projects, such as poor DNS planning, insufficient testing, unanticipated application behavior, and poor IPv6 support in peripheral support, management, or security systems. Many deployment projects suffer temporary halts when the original IPv6 address design is found to be inadequate – in [...]

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This blog post covers some significant items that ever enterprise should review when adding IPv6 to an existing network. This is not a comprehensive list, but is an excellent place to start when considering IPv6 security additions to an existing general network security approach.

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The planning for the Interop network kicked off with an engineering meeting with engineers from the participating vendors meeting in person or via audio conferencing.
Complete info at NetworkComputing.

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