IPv6 News

The recently completed Linux 2.6.34 merge window included a patch to eliminate a type of denial-of-service attack against routers.
Complete info at LWN.

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In its 2008 action plan for the deployment of the Future Internet Protocol in Europe, the European Commission is calling for the inclusion of relevant technology knowledge in retraining curricula and in higher education computer and network engineering courses. To support this action, the European Commission, Directorate F – Information Society and Media Unit F4, [...]

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Comcast and Internet Systems Consortium announced on Thursday the availability of open source software that will help carriers and enterprises migrate to IPv6, the long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet’s main communications protocol.
Called Address Family Transition Router (AFTR), the software is available immediately and free of charge to network engineers who want to experiment with this [...]

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Updated kernel packages that fix three security issues and multiple bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 Extended Update Support.
Complete info at LWN.

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Updated kernel packages that fix two security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 Extended Update Support.
Complete info at LWN.

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Intel wants to bring its microprocessing muscle and Moore’s Law to the smart grid, an executive said yesterday.
Complete info at SmartPlanet and ZDNet.

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If your business relies at all on the internet, then you’d better get up to speed on IPv6 – if you don’t, your customers won’t be able to reach you. What does IPv6 mean for business, how much time is left before the transition and how do businesses prepare?
Pundits have warned of the impending [...]

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Nobody doubts that China deserves a big say in what goes on in today’s world. However, Newsweek’s senior editor Rana Foroohar and its Beijing bureau chief Melinda Liu argued that China would not be satisfied with it.
Complete info at ChinaDaily.

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Leading technology industry associations The SIP Forum and the IPv6 Forum have joined forces to drive the deployment and interoperability of session initiation protocol (SIP) and Internet protocol version 6 (IPv6) related technologies and services.
Complete info at EarthTimes, ArticleAnt and FoxBusiness.

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ON World reports that the two competing standards for wireless process automation, WirelessHART and ISA100.11a, will ultimately benefit end users by driving innovation and attracting new entrants. As hundreds of participants work on a single converged wireless standard, IP sensor networking has emerged as a key technology as part of this evolution.
Complete info at EarthTimes and PRWeb.

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