World IPv6 Launch: This Time It’s For Real The world will change significantly on June 6, 2012. That’s World IPv6 Launch, the day that, thanks to the hard work of the world’s leading content providers, Internet access providers and home equipment manufacturers, there will be real IPv6 traffic on the global Internet. And, it’s not Read more…
Our friends over at the DNSSEC Deployment Initiative published the great news that DNSSEC was involved in the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (NCCDC) held in April 2012. This annual event, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology division, involved this year 126 schools and over 1,500 competitors. The important Read more…
What type of IPv6 and DNSSECarticles, tutorials, and other content do we need to add to this Deploy360 website? What areas need more attention? Have you looked for some topic here and not found it? Since we launched Deploy360 four months ago, we’ve been collecting feedback through comments to this site; through interactions on Twitter, Facebook and Google+; Read more…
We are excited to announce that we’ll be holding an ION Conference in Mumbai, India, on 11 October 2012. This event will be co-located with Interop Mumbai, which is one of the biggest business technology events in the region. The ION Conference will spread IPv6 and DNSSEC deployment information to business leaders and technology providers to push Read more…
How many of the top 1 million websites (according to Alexa) are using IPv6? Hackertarget.com, a provider of online security scanning services, released an infographic summarizing their research. As they say on their page: Analysis of IPv6 enabled sites was conducted in March 2012. We have analysed the Alexa Top 1 Million sites and looked Read more…
Are you a college/university student looking for a summer internship where you can make a difference? Are you passionate about the need for the open Internet? Do like explaining technology to people? Here at the Internet Society Deploy360 Programme we are currently taking applications for a summer intern to help us continue building our online Read more…
Eric Vyncke continues to crank out interesting visualizations of IPv6-related statistics. We’d previously written about his daily IPv6 statistics, but now he’s out with new statistics about IPv6 usage within BitTorrent P2P networks. Based on work documented in an Internet Draft, draft-vyncke-ipv6-traffic-in-p2p-networks, Eric’s interactive map is interesting to use. At the time of this blog Read more…
We are excited to announce that we’ll be holding an ION Conference in San Diego, CA, on 11 December 2012. This event will be co-located with the Large Installation Systems Administration (LISA) Conference, so it’s sure to draw in a highly technical audience that is ready and willing to discuss all matters related to IPv6 Read more…
Our friends over at the DNSSEC Deployment Initiative have noted that ICANN issued a Call for Participation for their upcoming DNSSEC Workshop on June 27, 2012, in Prague, Czech Republic, as part of the ICANN 44 meetings happening there. This is a similar workshop to the excellent DNSSEC workshop at ICANN 43 that I attended Read more…
Today over on Cisco’s “Borderless Networks” blog, Jim Bailey had a great post up tackling the issue around how you create a plan for your IPv6 address space: “Integrating IPv6 Into Your Network: Five Steps for Building Your IPv6 Address Plan“. Guidance on planning your IPv6 addressing is definitely a topic I have in our Read more…