IPv6 News

In 2011, the increasingly mobile and socially networked world of technology became more intertwined than ever with politics and the law. Patent wars shaped competition in tablets and smartphones, hacktivists attacked a widening array of political and corporate targets, repressive regimes unplugged citizens from the Internet, and the U.S. government [...]

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Never let it be said “The Inquirer” doesn’t know how to grab attention: “The Internet is doomed until European businesses and organizations begin to move towards IPv6.”
That’s their quote from Neelie Kroes, vice president of the European Commission responsible for the Digital Agenda. Rather nicely frames the importance of the issue, [...]

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We are at the dawn of the age of IPv6, the Internet protocol that will succeed version 4. With 340 undecillion available addresses, IPv6 ensures that the Internet can continue growing and offers advantages in terms of stability, flexibility, and simplicity in network administration.
The Internet is a communications network formed by [...]

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The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) hosted its third IPv6 Customer Edge (CE) Router Interoperability Test Event the week of November 7-11, 2011. The event brought together users and suppliers of CE Router equipment in order to gain perspective on the current status of interoperability against the Internet Engineering Task [...]

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The New Zealand IPv6 Task Force is pleased to announce that New Zealand’s public sector is making steady progress towards greater adoption and usage of IPv6 – the next generation Internet protocol.
The finding follows a series of interviews conducted by the Task Force with a swath of SOEs, Crown entities, core government [...]

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In a project that has taken longer than company engineers anticipated, Google is rolling out IPv6 across its entire internal employee network.
Google network engineer Irena Nikolova discussed the company-wide implementation at the Usenix Large Installation System Administration (LISA) conference, being held this week in Boston. There, she shared some lessons [...]

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IPv4, the current Internet protocol standard, is running out and the new standard, IPv6 is not backwards compatible. Because the two cannot communicate directly with each other, it’s imperative that IPv6 is adopted globally to avoid any disruption in Internet connectivity.
The RIPE NCC, the Regional Internet Registry (RIR) for Europe, the [...]

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The cable industry still is rushing to handle the new and far more complex IPv6 addressing format.
The basics of the story — the inadequate long-term supply of IPv4 addresses and the need to upgrade just about every link of the distribution chain in order to support IPv6 — seem to have been with us for [...]

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The European Commission (EC) has warned businesses and ISPs to “act now” and get on with the “very important” job of upgrading their networks to support the Internet Protocol v6 ( IPv6 ) addressing standard before Europe’s remaining IPv4’s are totally depleted (likely to happen within the next 12 months).
The issue is important because the [...]

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With this summer’s exhaustion of new IPv4 addresses, the adoption of the next generation of Internet protocols is becoming reality, not an event predicted for the distant future. This means that enterprises would be well advised to begin now addressing how they will ready their networks for IPv6.
There is still some breathing room — years, [...]

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