Fix6 – IPv6 News and info

The American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), a nonprofit association that manages the distribution of Internet number resources, announced today that its 25th public policy meeting, ARIN XXV, will be held April 18-21, 2010, at the InterContinental Toronto Centre in Toronto, Ontario. The meeting provides the Internet community a chance to discuss IPv6 policy, IP addressing trends, and the challenges of IPv6 adoption.

“The Internet has become an irreplaceable part of how consumers and businesses communicate,” said John Curran, president and CEO of ARIN. “With less than 8% of IPv4 addresses still available, our mission is to consider any policy changes necessary for this transition to occur smoothly, and to continue discussions about this important issue. ARIN XXV will include important discussions on draft address allocation policy proposals, including several proposed changes that may affect IPv6 adoption.”

More from Wire Service Canada…

Now that Gustavus is IPv6 enabled, students who have subscribed to Netflix streaming services can now do so over our very fast IPv6 network. However to take advantage of this, your computer must have a working IPv6 network connection. See our previous post about IPv6 for more information.
Complete info at Gustavus.

A few days ago APNIC allocated two new /8 from IANA. The allocated blocks are 14.0.0.0. – 14.255.255.255 and 223.0.0.0. – 223.255.255.255.

The depletion of the IPv4 pool is getting close.

John Curran writes: Verizon has announced today that its “month-long trial of IPv6 involves FiOS-enabled customer homes with customized CPE—provided by Verizon—that can support both IPv6 and IPv4. The dual protocol setup will also be implemented on Verizon’s edge gateway routers. Verizon employs 6PE technology, which uses IPv6-provider edge routers to connect across the company’s IPv4 MPLS core. The IPv6 traffic is then sent over IPv6-capable peering connections.”

Read full story: CNN

Overview of Teredo Relay Servers is here: http://bgpmon.net/teredo.phpOnly 13 in the world … I’m surprised Teredo/Miredo works so well for me.

Internode will offer production IPv6 services to consumers by the end of 2010 as it continues to gain experience through a trial of the next generation Internet Protocol.
Complete info at ComputerWorld, NetworkWorld and InfoWorld.

Leading Web content providers — including Google, Yahoo, Netflix and Microsoft — are conducting early-stage conversations about creating a shared list of customers who can access their Web sites via IPv6, the long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet’s main communications protocol.

The DNS Whitelist for IPv6 would be a list of IP addresses that have functioning IPv6 connectivity. Content providers would use this shared DNS Whitelist to serve up content to these IP addresses via IPv6 rather than through IPv4, which is the current version of the Internet Protocol. Web site visitors not listed on the DNS Whitelist for IPv6 would receive IPv4-based content.

More from NetworkWorld…

Network engineers from Yahoo are pitching what they admit is a “really ugly hack” to the Internet’s Domain Name System, but they say it is necessary for the popular Web content provider to support IPv6, the long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet’s main communications protocol.
Complete info at NetworkWorld, ComputerWorld and CIO.

The American Registry for Internet Numbers will be holding IPv6 web hosting session at its public policy meeting, ARIN XXV, next month in Toronto, designed to bring together industry professionals, government representatives, and Internet community leaders together in an open and productive forum.

Complete info at TheWhir.

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.