IPv6 News

Ivan Pepelnjak (CCIE#1354) from ioshints.info is hosting a webex on April13th on Building IPv6 Service Provider Core When building an IPv6-enabled Service Provider core, you have three design options: dual-stack deployment, running IPv6 over MPLS (6PE) or running IPv6 inside a VPN (6VPE). This workshop describes the principles of all three design options and their [...]

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Following on a very successful event in January 2009 (videos and slides of the sessions are still available), which was supported by funding from the ISOC Community Grants Programme, the Irish National IPv6 Task Force is hosting another all-day summit in Dublin Castle, Ireland on Wednesday, 19 May 2010. This year’s event is designed to [...]

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For DirectAccess in Windows Server 2008 R2: · Windows 2008 R2 Direct Access Server Management Pack for SC Operations Manager 2007 SP1 The management pack includes rich set of Alarms, Monitors and Agent Tasks that can be used to successfully and efficiently…(read more)

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SixXS (http://www.sixxs.net) is a project run by two enterprising Dutchman providing IPv6 connectivity through various ISP-provided PoPs to users around the world. The project came up with a couple of unique methods of getting people to get connected to IPv6 (AICCU which provides heartbeat and AYIYA tunnels) and also to make sure that the connectivity [...]

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NANOG48 : IPv6 Link Numbering Panel
Ron Bonica, Juniper Networks; Panelist: Igor Gashinsky, Yahoo!

Ron Bonica Presentation
Igor Gashinsky Presentation
Rob Seastrom Presentation
Kevin Loch Presentation

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Even though IPv6 adoption is dangerously slow, we will see adoption eventually. There are three main sections of the Internet that need to handle IPv6. The Internet networking equipment like routers, proxies and firewalls, and services like DNS and routing need to support IPv6 so that clients can talk to servers that users are connecting [...]

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Since 2005, bgpexpert.com been compiling an IPv4 address use report every year. With the start of the new decade, this is a good moment to start doing the same thing for IPv6.
This page shows the amount of IPv6 space given out by RIR and by year, while this page shows the amount of IPv6 [...]

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Google has announced plans to implement ipv6 on YouTube.
networkworld.com gives some extra information about Google’s plans with IPv6:
Google already supports IPv6 with its Search, Alerts, Docs, Finance, Gmail, Health, iGoogle, News, Reader, Picasa, Maps and Wave products.
Google’s Chrome operating system — whose source code was released this week — supports IPv6, as does its [...]

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The following new documentation resources for DirectAccess are now available: · DirectAccess Deployment Guide This guide provides checklists and step-by-step procedures for deploying DirectAccess servers and DirectAccess client settings. Use this guide…(read more)

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Disputes over peering, which have quickly made the jump from IPv4 to IPv6.
Complaints of a “broken IPv6 Internet” emerged last week on the North American Network Operators Group mailing list, which surfaced a peering issue involving IPv6 connections between Hurricane Electric and Cogent Communications.
While Hurricane Electric pointed the finger at Cogent, it has also [...]

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