- IPv6 news and information

At a plenary session during the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) meeting in Quebec City, Canada two weeks ago, World IPv6 Day was rehashed at some length. It took place on June 8 this year, and Google, Facebook, Yahoo and others turned on IPv6 for 24 hours in an effort to flush out broken IPv6 setups. Immediately after IPv6 day, and again six weeks later, we noted that there didn’t appear to be much breakage to speak of.
Complete info at ars technica.

I’m doing a webcast together with Jeff Hartley from Brocade on August 24. If you are interested in how you can deploy NAT64 and DNS64 with Brocade ServerIron ADX and Secure64 DNS, then please attend.

Register here

The email below showed up at the NANOG (North American Network Operators’ Group) email list today. It will be interesting to see if this block will get sold and if the seller manages to get as much or more money as the Nortel block that Microsoft bought earlier this year.

Subject: Corporation for Sale with IPv4 Assets
Date: August 6, 2011 6:31:04 PM EDT
To: [email protected]

North American Corporation (domiciled in Nevada) is for sale.

All non-IPv4 assets and debts (and other liabilities) have been transferred
to another related corporation.

IPv4 Assets include:
1 – ASN; and
3 – /20 networks (12,288 IP Addresses) direct allocations (non-legacy).

Multiple options available for sale/purchase.  Motivated sellers.
Please e-mail: [email protected] or call/text: (404) 532-9535.
Available on Saturday and Sunday for discussion.

For me, one of the more interesting sessions at the recent IETF 81 meeting in July was the first meeting of the recently established Homenet Working Group.

What’s so interesting about networking the home?

Well, if you regard challenges as “interesting”, then just about everything is interesting when you look at networking in the home!

It’s been a very long time since the state-of-the-art in home Internet was plugging the serial port of the PC into the dialup modem. Even the ADSL modem, even when combined with some for of WiFi base station, is looking distinctly passé these days. Today the home network is seeing the intersection of a whole set of interests, including the phone service, the TV service, home security services, energy management, utility service metering, possibly other forms of home device monitoring, and, oh yes, connecting the laptops and the mobile devices to the net. And of course it’s not just a home LAN over a wired network. WiFi home networks are commonplace, and of course there are various Bluetooth devices. Maybe sometime soon it will be common for the home network to also host some form of 3G femtocell as well. But these days even that level of network complexity is not enough.

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Juniper Networks and Telecom Italia today announced that they received Global Telecoms Business’ IP Transformation award for their IPv4 Depletion & IPv6 Migration joint project. The project was designed to manage the parallel tracks of IPv4 and IPv6 seamlessly within a single architecture. The award was presented at the recent Global Telecoms Business (GTB) Innovation awards ceremony in London.

Complete info at 4-traders.

As part of the Spanish IPv6 transition plan, a video introducing IPv6 and the plan itself, has been released.
The video is available at TVenred in English and Spanish.