By way of a message to the “ipv6-ops” mailing list this morning we learned the fun fact that according to Google’s IPv6 Statistics Switzerland has edged out Romania as the country with the most IPv6 adoption coming in at 9.47% versus Romania at 8.63%. Given that Romania has held the lead in IPv6 adoption for Read more…

Next week in Dublin, Ireland, the RIPE 66 Meeting will take place from May 13-17 and a number of Internet Society technical staff will be onsite including two of us from Deploy360: Jan Zorz and myself (Dan York).  The meeting plan has a great number of topics of interest, but two in particular that we’ll Read more…

Interested in IPv6 security? Back in October 2012, the Packet Pushers podcast had a great show on the topic called “Healthy Paranoia Show 4:IPv6 Security Smackdown!” Guests included many of the people we’ve routinely interacted with about IPv6 at events and on mailing lists: Fernando Gont, security researcher Eric Vyncke, Cisco Distinguished Consulting Engineer and Read more…

How can you best migrate your network to IPv6? What is the best transition mechanism to use of the many available?  Should you make your network dual-stack? Use tunneling? Go IPv6-only with gateways on the edge? I’ve been asked this question lately by a number of people and unfortunately the answer to what is “best” Read more…

We were very pleased to see news yesterday on Comcast’s corporate blog about the launch of IPv6 services for businesses. Comcast’s John Jason Brzowski wrote there that: Business Ethernet customers have had full IPv6 service and support in place for them since the beginning of 2013. IPv6 trials are about to get underway for our Business Internet customers Read more…

Video from the first ever INET Denver, organized with our Colorado Chapter, is available for viewing now! Themed “IPv4 Exhaustion and the Path to IPv6,” the event was held at the Grand Hyatt Denver on the afternoon of Wednesday, 17 April. INET Denver was designed to complement the content presented at the co-located North American IPv6 Summit by focusing on the IPv4 side of the impending transition to IPv6.

This page will serve as a repository of information of information related to IPv6 and communications protocols based on IP, including voice-over-IP (VoIP), unified communications (UC). real-time communications (RTC) and the use of the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). (NOTE: Need to include reference here to how WebRTC is designed to work with IPv6.) Documentation RFC Read more…

Next week at the SIPNOC conference, Dan York will be presenting about how VoIP can work over IPv6 – and how DNSSEC can add a layer of security to IP communications.

Want to learn the current state of IPv4 address exhaustion and corresponding IPv6 deployment in North America?  Interested in learning about the state of the market for IPv4 addresses (i.e. the cost you may incur if you don’t move to IPv6)?  Want to learn what ARIN’s latest policies are around IP address allocation? If so, Read more…

We were very pleased to learn via a blog post that a new set of network operator measurements are up on the World IPv6 Launch site at: http://www.worldipv6launch.org/measurements/ One of the most interesting statistics to me was that IPv6 traffic on Verizon Wireless’ network has now climbed to 26.25%.  This reflects the fact that IPv6 Read more…