IPv6 News

A vibrant market for buying and selling IPv4 addresses is emerging, and policymakers are clarifying the rules associated with how network operators can monetize this precious Internet addressing resource.
Complete info at ComputerWorld, NetworkWorld and PC World.

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Networking isn’t just about bigger, faster, and denser any more. Virtually every aspect of networking is developing new core protocols and technologies to meet growing demand.
Complete info at InformationWeek and NetworkComputing.

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Light Reading Live has their IPv6 2011: The Time is Now! conference in New York on July 14th, 2011. This is an IPv6 conference that focuses on enterprises, service providers, and content providers. This event will have many top-notch speakers because it is an IPv6 event that is conveniently located on the East-coast this year. [...]

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It is intended to resolve the issue of the world running out of IP addresses in 2011.
Complete info at DailyNewsPulse.

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According to Latif Ladid, president of the IPv6 Forum, IPv4 addresses managed by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority were exhausted on February 3. There are no more blocks available for allocation. The IP community has known of this impending event for years and has developed a solution referred to as IPv6.
Complete info at TelecomReseller.

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Laurentian University is the first university in Canada to implement a IPv6 accessible website. Internet protocol version 6 (IPv6) is the latest version of the Internet protocol format, and is quickly replacing the current Internet protocol version 4 (IPv4) format.
Complete info at NorthernLife.

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The Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (TRC) recently hosted a workshop on the new Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) for information technology and telecommunications specialists from both the public and private sectors to prepare the Virgin Islands for the current global process regarding the change to take place with the Internet.
Complerte info at BVI Platinum.

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Information security challenges are confronting organizations as they transition from IPv4 to IPv6, according to Patrick Bedwell, vice president of product marketing at network security appliance provider Fortinet.
Complete info at InfoSecurity.

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tw telecom, a leading national provider of managed voice, Internet and data networking solutions for businesses across the U.S. and globally, today announced its strategy and plans to participate in the upcoming World IPv6 day scheduled for June 8, 2011.
Complete info at DigitalJournal, SunHerald and DM.

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When it became clear that 32-bit IP addresses just wouldn’t cut it for a growing Internet, the Internet Engineering Task Force did what its name suggests and created a new version of IP. IPv6 has so many addresses that it will resist our best efforts to waste all of them for many decades, if not centuries.
Complete info at ars technica.

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