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Derek Morrhas blogged before about the shoddy support for IPv6 in Perl. Last week, Perl 5.14 was released with improved IPv6 support in the core distribution:

Improved IPv6 support
The Socket module provides new affordances for IPv6,
including implementations of the Socket::getaddrinfo() and
Socket::getnameinfo() functions, along with related constants and a
handful of new functions. See Socket.

This change brings the standard getaddrinfo()/getnameinfo() socket calls into the core library. Prior to this, developers had to use a separate module, socket6, to get IPv6-capable socket calls. This change is long overdue. The getaddrinfo() and getnameinfo() calls were first defined in RFC 2113, which published in 1997!

In 2011, I can’t imagine why anyone would want to write new code in Perl, but I’m glad that the core library finally has IPv6 support. There’s still a lot of legacy Perl code out there, and much of it will have to get IPv6 support. This should make that process much easier.

Source: Living with IPv6 Blog

Just saw this on Twitter and it was too cute not to share. A larger version is available if you click on the image.

On June 8 the websites listed here will offer their content over IPv6.

The goal of World IPv6 Day is to motivate organizations across the industry – Internet service providers, hardware makers, operating system vendors and web companies – to prepare their services for IPv6 to ensure a successful transition as IPv4 addresses run out.

The following websites have joined the (growing) list of company’s that will participate in the World IPv6 day:

American Domain Names (www.unclesamnames.com)

Devoteam Genesis (www.devoteam.ch)

Campus Party (www.campus-party.org, www.campus-party.com.co, www.campus-party.com.br, www.campus-party.es)

OpenDNS (opendns.com)

NTT (www.ntt.net)

ICT Standards Advisory Council of Canada (www.isacc.ca)

Akanthe Solutions (www.wikisail.fr, www.wikisail.org, www.wikisail.com, www.akanthe.com, www.akanthemarine.com, www.akanthesolutions.com)

Tellabs (www.tellabs.com)

Mutali (www.mutali.rw)

TheHavenNet (www.thehavennet.org.uk)

TownNews (townnews.com)

IP-Only Telecommunications Network AB (www.ip-only.net, www.ip-only.com, www.ip-only.se)

netPR.pl sp. z o.o. (www.netpr.pl)

Technodyne (www.technodyne.com)

HostingXS BV (www.hostingxs.nl)

IG (www.ig.com.br)

Infoblox (www.infoblox.com)

Ericsson (www.ericsson.com)

New York University (www.nyu.edu)

Beirut Internet eXchange Point (www.beirutix.net)

Frequence3 (www.frequence3.fr)

ULAKNET (www.ulak.net.tr)

Ripple Communications (www.ripplecom.net)

XS Software JSCO (www.xs-software.com)

Spil Games (www.gamesgames.com, www.agame.com, www.juegos.com, www.gry.pl, www.girlsgogame.nl, www.spela.se, www.jeu.fr, www.spielen.com, www.games.co.uk, www.flashgames.ru, www.girlsgogames.it)

CESCA (www.cesca.cat)

Tata Communications (www.tatacommunications.com)

Sprint (www.sprint.com)

Orange, Moldova (www.orange.md)

CCABA – Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona Tech (www.ccaba.upc.edu)

Hostmaster Ltd (www.hostmaster.ua)

DetikCom (www.detik.com)

Alexville Games (www.alexville.com)

Hong Kong Internet Registration Corporation (www.hkirc.hk)

Hong Kong Domain Name Registration (www.hkdnr.hk)

Förderverein Bürgernetz Landshut e.V (www.landshut.org)

ISACA (www.isaca.org, www.itgi.org, www.takinggovernanceforward.org)

RECRO-NET (www.recro-net.hr)

United States Department of Commerce (www.commerce.gov)

United States Census Bureau (www.census.gov)

National Technical information Service (www.ntis.gov)

IT-mästaren MItt AB (www.itmastaren.se)

tw telecom (www.twtelecom.com)

Hage Hosting (www.ipv6world.nl)

Hostpoint (www.hostpoint.ch)

United States Office of Personnel Management (www.buffalo.feb.gov, www.sanantonio.feb.gov, www.newmexico.feb.gov, www.cincinnati.feb.gov, www.minnesota.feb.gov, www.pittsburgh.feb.gov, www.detroit.feb.gov, www.philadelphia.feb.gov, www.houston.feb.gov, www.newark.feb.gov, www.lmrcouncil.gov, www.pmf.gov, www.usalearning.gov)

Turkcell (www.turkcell.com.tr)

National Telecommunications and Information Administration (www.ntia.doc.gov)

NIC Chile (www.nic.cl, www.ipv6.cl)

Dualtec Cloud Solutions (www.dualtec.com.br)

Nomer Registre com segurança (www.nomer.com.br)

United States Federal Aviation Administration (www.faa.gov)

cPanel Inc. (www.cpanel.net)

Level 3 Communications (www.level3.com)

adm-host (www.adm-host.com)

Netnam (www.netnam.vn)

Fleeman Anderson Bird Corp (www.fab-corp.com)

Superonline (www.superonline.com)

Hong Kong Cyberport Management Ltd (www.cyberport.hk)

Marshall University (www.marshall.edu)

Cyber Internet Services (Pvt.) Ltd (www.cyber.net.pk)

F5 Networks (www.f5.com)

Telcordia (www.telcordia.com)

Neustar Inc. (www.neustar.biz, www.ultradns.com, www.webmetrics.com, www.quova.com)

Melbourne IT Group (www.melbourneit.info)

BBN Technologies (www.bbn.com)

Campaya (www.campaya.co.uk)

Spain-holiday (www.spain-holiday.com)

Microsoft Xbox (www.xbox.com)

Subsecretaria de Telecomunicaciones de Chile (www.subtel.cl)

National Library of Medicine (www.nlm.nih.gov)

On June 8th, 2011, Xbox.com will be enabled for IPv6, the next generation of the Internet protocol. This is part of an industry-wide effort called World IPv6 Day where Bing, Google, Facebook, Yahoo and other major Internet companies are providing IPv6 access for this one-day test.
Complete info at thisisxbox.

NTT Communications (NTT Com) and its three subsidiaries of NTT Plala, NTT PC Communications and NTT America jointly announced on April 28 that they will participate in World IPv6 Day, a worldwide testing of the IPv6 protocol, to demonstrate its readiness to ensure successful transition from the IPv4 environment.
Complete info at SunHerald, DigitalJournal and ITnews.

On Friday 29th April 2011, the Spanish Council of Ministers has approved the Master Plan for the National transition to IPv6, with the cooperation of all the public administrations.

The Plan includes 10 points covering all the aspects required for the public administrations to tackle the IPv4 exhaustion problem with a firm commitment for the deployment of IPv6, including eGovernment services, and the cooperation with private organisations in order to make sure that IPv6 is deployed in every network in the country.

In the next months a free training program will be provided in the 20 major Spanish cities.
The summary of the Plan is published in the Moncloa web site. Also an official IPv6 web site has been released which will include further contents in the next weeks.