Erion’s David Holder is to speak at this year’s SambaXP conference in Göttingen, Germany. The paper entitled “How to Implement Samba in IPv6 Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7 Networks” will provided detailed guidance on migrating heterogeneous networks to IPv6 using Samba. Details of the Samba XP agenda can be found at http://www.sambaxp.org/index.php?id=154.

Erion has been instrumental in the IPv6 enabling of the popular Windows and Unix integration open source package Samba. We were the first to successfully IPv6 enable the Linux CIFS client, Samba 3.2 and Samba4. In addition, we carried out the first IPv6 SMB connections between Samba and Windows Server 2008. Further information on Erion’s work with Samba and IPv6 can be found on our IPv6 blog at http://www.ipv6consultancy.com/ipv6blog/?cat=4.

SambaXP runs from 5th  May to 6th May 2010.

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.

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The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)'s Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC) is conducting a survey of the commercial firewall market to obtain information relating to IPv6 security service availability.
Complete info at ag-IP-news.

gogo6 inc. today announced it has added a DS-lite beta service to Freenet6. Freenet6’s connectivity services are provided to gogoNET’s members so they can create and gain hands-on experience with live IPv6 networks.

DS-lite is the latest IPv6 transition mechanism defined by the IETF. It is unique in that it enables operators to provide IPv4 to their customers even after the IPv4 address pool has been depleted.

Read more at Forbes.

The National Insitute Of Standards And Technology (NIST) announces the public comment release of Special Publication (SP) 800-119, Guidelines for the Secure Deployment of IPv6. IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) is the next generation Internet Protocol, accommodating vastly increased address space. This document describes and analyzes IPv6’s new and expanded protocols, services, and capabilities, including addressing, DNS, routing, mobility, quality of service, multihoming, and IPsec.

Read the document and comment here.

Bittorrent client Transmission version 1.80 has been released. The release notes (http://trac.transmissionbt.com/wiki/Changes#version-1.80) say "Improved IPv6 support" ... what would that mean? My hope is of course that the webinterface of Transmission is now IPv6-enabled. Ubuntu Lucid Lynx (alpha 2) has Transmission 1.80, so I've run Lucid to see if the webinterface is indeed IPv6 enabled ...

Read more on http://ipv6-or-no-ipv6.blogspot.com/2010/01/transmission-180-released-with-improved_22.html

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 to from giants like Google and Amazon to smaller web, email and other hosts. Then, there are the enterprise and consumer products that will connect to Internet hosts. The question remains how to deliver IPv6 services in a non-disruptive manner to consumers in homes, small businesses and enterprises, all of whom can’t control either the content being provided or the consumers visiting that content.

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ISOC Argentina, in cooperation with the 6DEPLOY project, has released a new IPv6 Book "IPv6 for All: Usage and Application Guide for different environments".

It is targeted to different types of readers, including end users, SOHO, enterprise, education and research networks, and ISPs. It also includes a section on how to deploy several IPv6 services.
The first edition is available in Spanish and can be downloaded here. Soon a new edition will be released in English and other languages being considered.

Traffic on the internet has continued to grow despite the economic crisis, industry insiders say.
Complete info at Periscope IT.

uTorrent is a great graphical tool to activate Teredo IPv6 on Windows XP.However, uTorrent on Windows Vista is quite silly: with the IPv6-only tracker tracker.sixxs.net, uTorrent says "hostname not found". Grrrr! And do remember: on Vista Teredo IPv6 is enabled by default, so IPv6 should work. Probably uTorrent is using Vista's braindead name resolving, meaning: no AAAA lookups with Teredo IPv6.