For those interested in helping make Voice-over-IP (VoIP) work over IPv6, and specifically VoIP using the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), the next conference call of the SIP Forum’s “SIP Over IPv6″ Task Group happens tomorrow, Thursday, June 20, 2013, at: 19:00 Central European Summer Time 18:00 British Summer Time 13:00 US Eastern Daylight Time 10:00 Read more…
Over on the World IPv6 Launch blog, Mat Ford just announced the most recent set of IPv6 measurements from the 114 network operators participating in the measurements program (and any network operator can join). Mat notes the great news that an ISP in Singapore, Starhub, moved from 0.1% to over 8% deployment in the space Read more…
Interested in IPv6 security? Want to see presentations by people working in the field? If so the members of the “ipv6hackers” mailing list are planning to hold their first face-to-face meeting in Berlin on July 28, 2013, the Sunday prior to IETF 87 in Berlin, Germany. From the announcement email: We’re planning to have our Read more…
To what degree are network operators engaging with IPv6? How ready are they to deploy IPv6? Those were the questions RIPE Labs’ Antony Gollan took on in his post today on the RIPE Labs blog in celebration of the 1 year anniversary of World IPv6 Launch. The RIPE NCC, the regional Internet registry (RIR) for Read more…
How can you best make your web content available over IPv6? What are the different strategies you can use? What are the advantages and disadvantages of using dual-stack, load balancers, 6to4, NAT64 and proxy servers? On this, the 1st anniversary of World IPv6 Launch, we are delighted to publish a new tutorial on this exact Read more…
The Internet has run out of unused IPv4 addresses. Some regions of the world still have some local supply left but it is a matter of time until those supplies run out as well. IPv6 is the protocol designed to solve the address shortage and to eventually replace IPv4. Until that happens IPv4 and IPv6 Read more…
Interested to learn more about how IPv6 usage has grown since last year’s World IPv6 Launch? And specifically within the African region? If so, you can join in a free webinar happening tomorrow, June 6, 2013, at 1:00 pm UTC (9:00 am US Eastern) where I will be joining representatives of Liquid Telecom and Orange Read more…
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…
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…