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Recently, both NTT and AT&T have had webinars on IPv6. AT&T’s webinar features Steve Stine, Vice President, IPv6 Transition, and Tom Siracusa, Executive Director, VPN Strategy, AT&T Laboratories. NTT’s webinar features Doug Junkins, CTO of NTT America.
Gert Döring, Co-Chair of the RIPE Address Policy Working Group, has been awarded the “IPv6 Ideenwettbewerb” from the Hasso-Plattner-Institut for his work on the OpenVPN software in Point-to-Multipoint-Mode, which facilitates the use of IPv6 addresses in dual-stack networks.
More on Heise Online… [in German]
With reports and rumors of a big “internet crunch” circulating, the Department of Defense is looking ahead to discern how it can take advantage of more advanced web protocols to enhance its mission.
Kris Strance, the chief of internet protocol for the department, said today in a “DoDLive” Bloggers Roundtable that the crunch – the potential loss of available address space for devices to connect to internet networks – likely won’t affect the Defense Department. But upgrading from internet protocol version four (IPv4) to version six (IPv6), he said, will allow for better network mobility and allow certain groups within the Defense Department to expedite their missions.
More from Defense.gov…
The remaining pool of unallocated IPv4 addresses could be depleted as early as December due to unprecedented levels of broadband and wireless adoption in the Asia Pacific region, experts say.
The acceleration of IPv4 address depletion is putting more pressure on network operators to migrate to IPv6, the long-anticipated upgrade to IPv4, the Internet’s main communications protocol.
More from NetworkWorld…
The fact that AfriNIC has handed out a farly large number of IPv4 addresses lately has raised some interesting concerns about when the IANA pool will run out. Is AfriNIC’s high allocation rate just a coincidence, or is this a trend that will continue?
This raises an interesting concern. Will AfriNIC actually be able to allocate an additional block from IANA before the central pool of IPv4 addresses gets depleted? They would get that last block at APNIC’s expense. This would also cause the IANA depletion date to be bumped earlier with about a month.
A lot suggest that this will be the case. The table below shows all allocations larger than 50,000 IPv4 that has been allocated this year from AfriNIC’s pool. AfriNIC has about 87% of a /8 block left in their pool today. According to the allocation policy between RIRs and IANA they are allowed to request more space when their current space goes below 50% of one /8. So they will do so if they manage to burn 37% of a /8 before the IANA pool is depleted. Their current burn rate is about 800,000 addresses per month (5% of a /8 per month). Burning 37% of a /8 would in this case take about 7-8 months for them.
Size Region Country Date IPv4 number
2097152 afrinic TN 20100503 197.0.0.0
524288 afrinic EG 20100308 197.192.0.0
524288 afrinic DZ 20100528 197.200.0.0
262144 afrinic MU 20100407 197.224.0.0
131072 afrinic KE 20100616 41.80.0.0
65536 afrinic KE 20100108 41.89.0.0
65536 afrinic EG 20100108 41.88.0.0
65536 afrinic SN 20100528 41.62.0.0
65536 afrinic ZA 20100527 41.61.0.0
65536 afrinic ZM 20100513 41.60.0.0
65536 afrinic TZ 20100413 41.59.0.0
65536 afrinic NG 20100308 41.58.0.0
65536 afrinic ZA 20100129 41.57.0.0
65536 afrinic ZA 20100125 41.56.0.0
Roaring Penguin offers a DNS-based IPv6 Reputation List to qualified institutions running IPv6 based mail servers. As IPv6 adoption increases, inevitably spammers will begin transmitting spam via IPv6. Roaring Penguin’s anti-spam products have been IPv6-ready since August 2009 and have been collecting IPv6 reputation data for many months. Roaring Penguin’s President David Skoll remarked, “We are seeing IPv6 spam and signs of IPv6 botnets in the wild; any organization wishing to deploy IPv6 needs an IPv6-ready email security system.”
Roaring Penguin Software’s CanIt line of anti-spam solutions includes support for IPv6. It can accept and deliver mail via SMTP over IPv6 and perform rule lookups against IPv6 addresses and networks. In addition, all CanIt components can use IPv6 for intra-cluster communication.
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The presentations in PDF form for the recently-concluded Rocky Mountain IPv6 Summit are now available online at http://www.rmv6tf.org/presentations2010.htm . These presentations cover a wide ground of topical IPv6 technologies and issues. Take a look...(read more)
I’m attending the IPv6 Conference this week.
Here is a quick overview over some of the talks and cool stuff that was being presented at day 1:
T-mobile uses NAT64 and DNS64 for their IPv6 trials.
Jan Zorz from Go6 in Slovenia is running a Apache webserver on his phone and it is accessible over Ipv6.
Cool tool to test your IPv6 connectivity from Jason Fesler at Yahoo!
Right now, day 2 is in progress. Post any questions you would like me to ask any of the speakers during day 2. Agenda is here.
A new site is now available to make it easy to determine the quality of your IPv6 connectivity. Try http://test-ipv6.com.