The Internet Protocol required upgrading…solution…IPv6
Comcast Corporation, the nation’s leading provider of entertainment, information and communications products and services, today demonstrated end-to-end network readiness for the transition to next-generation Internet addressing protocols (IPv6) and will ensure continued support for its customers through this transition.
[via - Cable Digital News]
Last week in Las Vegas, the Interop show took place. An unofficial count of 14,000 technology buyers and enthusiasts attended. While much lower than its record (over 100,000 strong), the show is still the biggest technology show which features a major presence by virtually every networking vendor. While exhibiting at Interop, we decided to walk the Interop Expo and ask the IPv6 support question to see if the mainstream corporate and enterprise space agrees with the need to think beyond IPv4.
[via circleid]
USA-Canada World Championship hockey games never fail to elicit great excitement. In the IPv6 adoption world league however, the US seems to have a convincing lead over their northern neighbour but the game is not over yet, here come the Canucks.
[via go6 IPv6 Blog - Yves Poppe]
Slowly, we’re making progress mainstreaming IPv6. I wanted to post on a few interesting developments.
Netflix has IPv6
Late last month, Netflix got an IPv6 allocation from ARIN, and they’re advertising it in BGP. It doesn’t appear that they’re offering any services over IPv6 yet, but this is a good first step. I look forward to the day I can stream movies to my Netflix set-top box over IPv6.
[via Derek Morr. Circle ID]
Google has begun preaching the wonders of IPv6 in the hope more awareness will help expedite the transition from the legacy IPv4 networks most people use today.
During a presentation at this year’s linux.conf.au in Hobart, senior Google software engineer Angus Lees recalled how Google’s IPv6 efforts started as a covert, hobbyist project about two years ago and has gained enough momentum that a AAAA record for google.com could be added to Google’s DNS in a year.
[via NetworkWorld]
At Google, we believe that IPv6 is essential to the continued health and openness of the Internet – and that by allowing all devices on a network to talk to each other directly, IPv6 will enable innovation and allow the Internet’s continued growth.
[via Google Alert]
2009 will undoubtedly be another exciting year of interesting developments in the technology industry. We can expect to see a combination of emerging technologies, and the mainstreaming of technology that we have seen coming for some time. An enabler for these new technologies is IPv6.
[via InternetWorld]
Last week IANA processed a request to add AAAA records for one of the thirteen DNS root-servers.
L.root-servers.net, operated by ICANN, became the seventh of the root servers to have it’s IPv6 address records (AAAA) added into the DNS root-zone. The addition of IPv6 service is part of ICANN’s ongoing commitment to act as a leader in enabling IPv6 services throughout the DNS.
[via ICANN Blog]
2008 was sort of a milestone year for IPv6. Foremost there was the much-touted US OMB Mandate which everyone got excited about back about 2005: By June of this year all federal agencies’ “infrastructure (network backbones) must be using IPv6 and agency networks must interface with this infrastructure.” In the years between that mandate and the deadline, however, the language and requirements slipped significantly.
[via NetworkWorld - Cisco Subnet - Jeff Doyle]