IPv6 News

The world will run out of internet IP addresses in less than a year because of the explosion in smartphones, experts have warned. Inaction by internet providers could lead to broken applications and more expensive net connections.
IP addresses do not refer to website domain names, but the unique sequence of numbers used to identify each [...]

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It’s been called the next Y2K, and it’s fast approaching – the end of Internet addresses under the current Internet Protocol.
Australian experts warned Monday that the number of Internet addresses available under the current protocol, IPv4, will run out in about 340 days, the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper reported.
Under IPv4, there are only about 232 [...]

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India will start using IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) from March 2012, according to a new roadmap released by the Indian government.
All telecom and ISPs will have to be IPv6-compliant by the end of next year and offer IPv6 services thereafter, the government said in a statement issued on Wednesday by the country’s Press [...]

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As the unallocated IPv4 address pool runs out, are Internet Service Providers (ISPs) actually deploying IPv6?
This graph, the first in a series from RIPE Labs, looks at the IPv6 “ripeness” of all ISPs registered as RIPE NCC members. We created a rating system that gives ISPs up to four “stars” for IPv6 services that they [...]

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The Internet promises unlimited connectivity, but such connectivity requires that computers and devices find one another through a common address plan. The current plan, in place since the late 1970s, is running out of open addresses, and a new scheme called IPv6 is being put in place to power the Internet’s next stage of growth.
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It is predicted that the pool of IPv4 addresses will be depleted within a year, possibly even before that. Every single ISP must upgrade its network to handle IPv6. IPv6 experts from CableLabs, the SCTE, Suddenlink and Incognito Software provided a rundown of recommended migration options, details about the specific subsystems in service provider networks [...]

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Today, the standard methods for moving the network/host address boundary are variable-length subnet masking (VLSM) for host addressing and routing inside a routing domain, and classless interdomain routing (CIDR) for routing between routing domains. (We’ll talk more about routing domains later in this book. For now, think of a routing domain as an ISP’s collection [...]

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Cisco today announced that the Conseil Régional de Basse-Normandie (CRBN) has deployed Cisco Unified Communications Manager, running the new version of Internet Protocol (IPv6), to simplify its communications infrastructure. The deployments will facilitate the implementation of new IPv6-based collaboration applications and services and help improve operational efficiency. The new system will operate with the council’s [...]

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Gert Döring, Co-Chair of the RIPE Address Policy Working Group, has been awarded the “IPv6 Ideenwettbewerb” from the Hasso-Plattner-Institut for his work on the OpenVPN software in Point-to-Multipoint-Mode, which facilitates the use of IPv6 addresses in dual-stack networks.
More on Heise Online… [in German]

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With reports and rumors of a big “internet crunch” circulating, the Department of Defense is looking ahead to discern how it can take advantage of more advanced web protocols to enhance its mission.
Kris Strance, the chief of internet protocol for the department, said today in a “DoDLive” Bloggers Roundtable that the crunch – the potential [...]

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