Google has started to initiate the enabling of their Youtube site over IPv6.
It is currently available to participants in their Google over IPv6
program, http://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/ .

The www.youtube.com user interface so far does *not* have any AAAA
published, but the *much* more important (traffic wise) image and video
servers do.

:~$ host s.ytimg.com
s.ytimg.com is an alias for static.cache.l.google.com.
static.cache.l.google.com has address 74.125.13.213
static.cache.l.google.com has IPv6 address 2001:4860:4001:402::15

:~$ host v1.lscache1.c.youtube.com
v1.lscache1.c.youtube.com is an alias for v1.lscache1.l.google.com.
v1.lscache1.l.google.com has address 74.125.97.80
v1.lscache1.l.google.com has IPv6 address 2001:4860:4001:402::10

Read more about it on the Ripe IPv6 Workgroup mailinglist

Maria Häll, Deputy Director for the Ministry of Enterprise, Energy and Communications in Sweden, and Co-chair of the RIPE Cooperation Working Group, talks about the role governments can play in encouraging IPv6 deployment in our latest video interview.

For the full transcript, as well as other interviews with community figures, see IPv6 Act Now.

Comcast has announced their plans for IPv6 Trials this year:

2Q2010:

Trial #1 will evaluate tunneling IPv6 over IPv4, using “6RD” technology. 6RD is an open Internet standard developed in the IETF’s Softwires working group. This trial enables us to explore how we may be able to provide production level IPv6 service to customers who have only been issued IPv4 addresses by the ISP network.

Trial #2 will evaluate a native Dual-Stack IPv6 deployment. We will test issuing both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses to the customer premise. This trial will attempt to suit a variety of customer premise configurations, and will evolve over time as the customer premise equipment (CPE) support for IPv6 matures. Native, dual-stack is central to our IPv6 strategy and we expect that the native dual-stack solution will be a significant part of the IPv6 transition, enabling IPv6 technology to evolve globally while still being able to provide seamless services to the traditional IPv4 Internet.

3Q2010:

Trial #3 will evaluate tunneling IPv4 over IPv6, using “Dual-Stack Lite” technology (aka DS-Lite). DS-Lite is an open standard defined in the IETF’s Softwires working group. DS-Lite will involve provisioning only an IPv6 address at the customer premise, and creating a IPv4 over IPv6 tunnel between the customer’s home gateway and an Address Family Transition Router (AFTR) in our network. That AFTR enables sharing IPv4 addresses among DS-Lite IPv6 customers. DS-Lite can be seen as the mirror image of 6RD; 6RD enables IPv6 service to IPv4 customers, whereas DS-Lite enables IPv4 service to IPv6 customers. DS-Lite offers the ability to continue an IPv4 service when IPv4 addresses are no longer readily available or are otherwise constrained.

Trial #4 will evaluate how to deploy IPv6 to our Business Class customers, on a native Dual-Stack IPv6 basis.

Its good to see that this big ISP has seen the importance of an IPv6 rollout. Lets  that their trials are successful so we can see Comcast connections with native IPv6 very soon!

You can sign up for the trials right here!

Virbl is a project which gets reports of virusscanning mailservers, and put the IP-addresses that were reported to send viruses on a blacklist.

We’ve changed Virbl today, which makes it the first fully IPv6 enabled dnsbl, as far as we can tell. You could already reach Virbl via IPv6 for years, but no IPv6 hosts were served by the nameserver. rbldnsd, on which we ran Virbl before, does not understand IPv6 in its zones.

This website allows you to check the status from the 3 big Dutch news servers on IPv6

http://www.daveboonstra.nl/ipv6/server-status.php

Every year in the Netherlands we have an event called “the glass house” by radio station 3FM to raise money for a charity.

This year the collected money will go to red cross foundation to help the fight against malaria!

This year the streams are reachable by IPv6. The IPv6 streams have an advantage over the regular stream because they have been upscaled to 3Mbit/s.

The streams are:

http://www.omroep.nl/live/ipv6/3fm_sr2009_main.asx

http://www.omroep.nl/live/ipv6/3fm_sr2009_brievenbus.asx

http://www.omroep.nl/live/ipv6/3fm_sr2009_cam1.asx

http://www.omroep.nl/live/ipv6/3fm_sr2009_djcam.asx

http://www.omroep.nl/live/ipv6/3fm_sr2009_buitenshot.asx

So check the streams out, and make sure you donate a few Euro’s by requesting a good song on  http://seriousrequest.3fm.nl/

The RIPE Labs website features an interview with Alain Durand at the recent IETF 74 meeting. Alain discusses the type of IPv6 measurements he is doing at Comcast, together with the University of Pennsylvania.

Alain: Before we start I would like to stress that this is a long-term study with the aim to see how the amount of IPv6 content is increasing over time. This project is done in collaboration with Roch Guerin of the University of Pennsylvania.

RIPE Labs: How many sites do you see as being accessible through both IPv4 and IPv6?

Alain: For every scan we measured the percentage of sites from the top  one million Alexa ranked web sites that are accessible via both IPv4 and IPv6. There is a link to the raw data on the bottom of each page [seeFigure-1 below].

Read the full interview at RIPE Labs.

There are many social network site available. Like Facebook and Hyves there are network sites for any topic you can imagine including IPv6.

gogoNET is a social network dedicated to IPv6 professionals. With help for IPv6 deployment from others who have hands-on experience from doing it before, discussion forums and country based groups.

There are over 9000 members who are active on the discussion forums. Members have the possibility to make blog posts for others to read, participate in discussions and help each other  with problems.

gogoNET provides free IPv6 connectivity through their Freenet6 tunnel broker service. They have recently introduced two new Freenet6 services:

• Reverse tunnel, to provide IPv4 connectivity in an IPv6 network
• Home Access, to provide easy and reliable connectivity to private networks from the Internet.

So if you are looking for a place with blogs, videos, presentations and discussions about IPv6 with other IPv6 professionals be sure to check out gogoNET and join the network!

Major European hoster STRATO rolls out IPv6 on a large scale.

From now on all STRATO HighQ and Windows servers and associated infrastructure are completely IPv6 ready.

STRATO offers basic or advanced IPv6 support. The basic support includes an single IPv6 address that is configured on the server. With advanced support customers receive a /56 IPv6 subnet for their server which they can configure services on.

The full (German) press article can be found on the STRATO website: http://www.strato.de

Just a quick update. The site has a new look. Its a bit more easy on the eyes and handles my Wordpress skills a little better then the last one.

There is a new category named Tiny news. Post in this category will have short news or info about any and all IPv6 related things and a link where they can be found. These posts will be included in the RSS and on Twitter but not on the main page.

On the sidebar you will find an couple of tweets from the IPv6 reposter on Twitter, so its always a surprise what kind of tweets it will hold!

update: oh and the poll was broken, its fixed now!