- IPv6 news and information

The RIPE NCC is using this week as an opportunity to interview the RIPE community about IPv6 and how it relates to their work. The video interviews will be used in the RIPE NCC’s IPv6 training and communication activities.

If you have had experience with IPv6 in your organisation and would like to share your story, please contact Rumy Kanis, RIPE NCC Training Services Manager, at [email protected] or ask at the Registration Desk to schedule a filming appointment.

Also here are the hilights from yesterdays RIPE-58 meeting:

There were three Plenary sessions on Tuesday filled with presentations and discussions, followed by the RIPE IPv6 Working Group.

The 11:00 Plenary session was themed around IPv6, with presentations on deployment experiences and trials. The afternoon Plenary session featured an “Overview of DNSSEC Trust Anchor Repositories (TARs)” by Ólafur Guðmundsson of Shinkuro Inc., which prompted some intense audience discussion on the merits of DNSSEC TARs. UCLA’s Eric Osterweil continued the DNSSEC theme, looking at “Availability Problems in the DNSSEC Deployment”, while Ethan Katz-Bassett of the University of Washington presented his work on Reverse Traceroute.

The IPv6 Working Group session featured a presentation by Google’s Lorenzo Colitti on Google’s IPv6 activities and an overview of IPv6 Teredo and 6to4 experiences by Martin J. Levy of Hurricane Electric. Maarten Botterman, TNO, also invited the RIPE community to take part in an EU IPv6 Deployment Survey. Lively discussion on several presentations proved that IPv6 continues to be a hot topic for the RIPE community.

Don’t forget that there will also be an IPv6 Peering BoF on Wednesday 6 May at 16:00 near the cloakroom.

For more hilights of the the meeting check: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-58/meeting-report.php

XS4ALL has delivered their first native IPv6 ADSL connection. This was announced today on the Ripe-58 meeting we wrote about a couple days ago.

In cooperation with AVM, supplier of the Fritzbox modems,  XS4all has connected the first home with an native IPv6 modem.

According to XS4ALL-expert Marco Hogewoning its a milestone for XS4ALL.

After this first successful test run, XSALL wants to try and make IPv6 available for the current customers aswell in the near future.

Tele2 AB is one of Europe’s biggest telecommunications operators, with about 24 million customers in 11 countries. It serves as a fixed-line telephone operator, cable television provider, mobile phone operator, internet service provider.

I just recieved an e-mail from Tele2.nl with their plans about IPv6.

Tele2 is working on their backbone to make sure its IPv6 ready. Their current estimate is that they will be done in 2010.

After that they can begin connecting customers to their IPv6 backbone.

Today we are talking to Wido Potters who works for BIT as manager Support & Sales. BIT is active as an hosting and access provider in the Netherlands.

Please tell us a little about BIT.

The company started in 1996 as Business Internet Trends and as so many
internet start-ups from a founder’s bedroom. Since then a lot has
changed at BIT, but two of the basic characteristics have remained unchanged.

First of all is the company technology-driven. All innovations at BIT
have a solid technological base and all products and services are
derived from this technological base. Unlike so many other internet
companies there is no place for market-driven hypes; how unfortunate was
the start-up’s name :) .

Secondly the company only offers business-to-business services. These
type of customers have different needs than private consumers. BIT has
decided to develop their products and services only for this type of
high demanding customers.

Since the start BIT has grown to a company with around 30 employees
nowadays. More and more we offer besides our internet-services,
infrastructure-services with our two data-centers and IP-network.
Custom-made solutions is the strong point of this independent ISP.

(more…)

For some time we have seen IPv6 logo’s come and go. Some even more horrific then the other.

As such we would like to present an logo that you can use, and doesnt look that bad:

and a little smaller:

And for the do it yourselvers we have uploaded the PSD, use it as you see fit!

http://www.fix6.net/wp-content/ipv6-logo.psd

Tomorrow RIPE 58 starts in Amsterdam. These are the IPv6 hilights:

There will be  webcast available for those unable to attend

Dates: Tuesday, 5 May, 11:00-12:30

* Case Study of Native IPv6 to the User – Alexandre Cassen, Free.fr.
* XS4ALL Trials with Native IPv6 Over ADSL – Marco Hogewoning, XS4ALL
* IETF Update – Mark Townsley
* IPv6 Deployment Monitoring: A User-Centred Approach – Presenter TBC TNO

Dates: Tuesday, 5 May, 16:00-18:00

A. Administrative Matters

* Welcome
* Select a scribe
* Jabber Monitor
* Microphone Etiquette
* Approve Minutes from RIPE 57
* Finalise agenda

B. RIPE NCC IPv6 Update – Erik Romijn

* Diving a bit more into things outside of the RIPE NCC network itself, but also some of the measurements we have from our services.

C. Google IPv6 Update – Lorenzo Colitti
D. Report(s) About Actual v6 Traffic Volume as Compared to v4? – Input from the audience

* What’s real out there, not what’s on PowerPoint?

E. Global IPv6 Routing Table Status – Gert Doering
F. Discussion: Deaggration of /32 Prefixes – Input from the audience

* Recent discussion and input to Address Policy Working Group

G. Overview of ISOC’s Current Activity with Regard to IPv6 Deployment – Matthew Ford
H. Proposed EU IPv6 Survey – Speaker TBC , TNO
I. Developments/Initiatives Regarding IPv6 in the RIPE Region and Beyond – Input from the audience
Y. Input for the RIPE NCC Activity Plan – Input from the audience
Z. A.O.B.

Im very intresed in the Native ADSL part by XS4ALL. Lets hope they can tell us something nice!