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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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The Spamhaus Project has released a document outlining Spamhaus’ strategy with respect to Spamhaus’ IP blocklists and their future in an IPv6 enabled world. Entitled “Spamhaus IPv6 Blocklists Strategy Statement”, the document focuses exclusively on IPv6 DNS-based blocklists and gives technical details of how Spamhaus plans to implement them.
Complete info at SpamHaus.

TeliaSonera International Carrier, with other leading technology companies, is taking part and supporting the Internet Society’s World IPv6 Day on June 8, 2011. TeliaSonera International Carrier’s website www.teliasoneraic.com will be IPv6 compatible. We are, as a parallel activity, working with our partners and customers to participate, promote and prioritize IPv6.

Complete info at CisionWire and TheSwedishWire.

ROBOBAK, a complete cloud based data protection solution for the Remote Office/Branch Office (ROBO) backup, announced today that ROBOBAK V10 fully supports IPv6 technology.
Complete info at Benzinga and PR Web.

Interesting: A HTC Wildfire with Android 2.2:does IPv6 when it’s provided via RADVD on a Wireless LAN… answers ping6-messagesHere’s a dump from the webserver’s logfile, and then a ping6 to that IPv6 address of the Android.

2001:838:3ba:a:baab:bbbb:aaaa:b – - [31/Jan/2011:23:46:21 +0100] “GET / HTTP/1.1″ 200 1173 “” “Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.2.1; nl-nl; HTC_Wildfire_A3333 Build/FRG83D)

Many IT people, who are unfamiliar with IPv6, believe the responsibility for IPv6 deployment falls on the network-teams. However, those who are knowledgeable about IPv6 realize the migration to IPv6 will involve any system that uses an IP address. As the network teams prepare the infrastructure for the addition of IPv6 we should alert our application developers and make sure they are ready for the challenge that awaits. This article contains some of the key issues that application developers will need to know as they make their applications function properly in a multi-protocol world.

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