Comcast has been conducting IPv6 technical trials in our production network for more than a year, and we’ve been working diligently on IPv6 deployment for over 6 years. After so many years of challenging preparatory work, significant technology investment, internal skills development, and close collaboration with our technology partners, I am incredibly pleased to announce that we’ve achieved another critical milestone in our transition to IPv6 — we have started the pilot market deployment of IPv6 to customers in selected markets!

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IPv6 will be needed, of course, simply because there aren’t nearly enough addresses using the old system.

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On 8 June, 2011, Google, Facebook, Yahoo!, Akamai and Limelight Networks will be amongst some of the major organisations that will offer their content over IPv6 for a 24-hour “test flight”. The goal of the Test Flight Day is to motivate organizations across the industry – Internet service providers, hardware makers, operating system vendors and web companies – to prepare their services for IPv6 to ensure a successful transition as IPv4 addresses run out.

www.worldipv6day.org

Imagine if the world ran out of phone numbers. Mobile providers could issue no more smartphones, businesses could create no new call centers, and the public would be left fighting over and recycling a diminishing amount of existing phone numbers. “That’s a similar situation that we’re in on the Internet,” says Facebook’s Donn Lee, pointing out that the Web’s billions of IP addresses are about to hit its max.

Lee is Facebook’s lead engineer on IPv6, or Internet Protocol version 6, the first new version of the Internet’s addressing system in decades, which will provide trillions and trillions more unique addresses on the Web. Every time you go online or print a document at work, you’re essentially dialing a unique number–called an IP address–to communicate with other devices and computer networks. It’s no different than visiting a friend: You might know the name of his apartment building, but you’ll need an address and zip code in order to locate it on a map. The Web works in the same way, but as the number of homes and businesses and devices connected to the Internet continues to increase exponentially, we’re rapidly running out of space online. And now it’s up to Internet giants such as Facebook, Google, and Yahoo to fix the problem before it’s too late.

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Brandon Carroll of GlobalConfig.net recently launched a new specialized training program at MyIPv6Tutor.com. He has developed the program specifically to help networkers who may not have the time to pour over books get up and running with IPv6.

Registration before May 15th is $197, and yields immediate access to the first two video lessons, with the other four becoming accessible on the 15th:

IPv6 features and benefits
IPv6 addressing
IPv6 headers
ICMPv6 – Why is this important?
Stateless and stateful autoconfiguration
A basic configuration of IPv6 on routers and desktop computers

The videos also come with downloadable MP3s and PDF transcripts. Brandon is an excellent trainer, and with World IPv6 Day less than a month away this is precisely the type of training some networkers need to finally make the push toward IPv6.

More informationhttp://myipv6tutor.com/

APNIC, the Regional Internet Registry (RIR) for the Asia Pacific region, announced that it has distributed the final IPv4 address space from its reserves of IPv4.

This means that APNIC is now supplying IPv4 address space to its members from the last /8 it holds according to the guidelines in section 9.10 in “Policies for IPv4 address space management in the Asia Pacific region”.

APNIC’s objective during Stage Three is to provide IPv4 address space for new entrants to the market and for those deploying IPv6.

From now, all new and existing APNIC account holders will be entitled to receive a maximum allocation of a /22 from the Final /8 address space.

Start with your Internet service provider (ISP).  Although not every ISP currently provides IPv6 service, the list grows in proportion to customer demand

So contact your ISP today or set up an account with a tunnel broker. Ask your CDN about their support plans for IPv6.

http://blogs.cisco.com/borderless/how-to-get-ipv6-now/

Dutch organisation SURFnet has created a document that looks in depth at how they deployed IPv6 across their network. Intended for network architects and network managers implementing IPv6 in their organisations, the document has been translated by the RIPE NCC and is available online.

http://www.ipv6actnow.org/2011/03/surfnet-doc/