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Countries around the world are all striving for the allocation of IPV6 next-generation Internet addresses because the existing IPV4 addresses will exhaust in 2012.

The Asia-Pacific Network Information Center (APNIC) will offer opportunities for the Chinese Internet industry to participate in the establishment of IP address management policy, Paul Wilson, chairman of the APNIC said in Beijing on August 26, 2009.

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The American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), a nonprofit that manages the distribution of Internet number resources, has partnered with the Caribbean Telecommunications Union (CTU) to host a series of events developed to raise awareness of Internet Protocol (IP) addressing challenges and policy matters. ARIN will participate in these events, including CTU’s Internet Governance Forum held August 24-25, and the Caribbean ICT Roadshow held August 26-28.

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IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6), the next-generation protocol designed by the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force), will gradually replace the current version of the Internet Protocol, IPv4. “IPv6 still counts for only about one percent of addresses and traffic in the publicly-accessible Internet which is still dominated by IPv4″ explains Marius Heuler, Chief Software Architect at Infosim, and continues “But this will change during the next years. IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) estimates to run out of IPv4 addresses by March 2012″.

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Tanzania has become the first beneficiary of the Internet infrastructure project led by AfriNIC, aimed at improving resilience to distributed denial of service attacks by setting up copies of root servers.

The Tanzania Internet Exchange (TIX) point has received a copy of the “K” DNS root server operated by RIPE NCC, the regional Internet registry in Europe. The root server is expected to improve scalability and resilience in case of DDoS attack, and reduce the delay in data passing between clients and servers.

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Mat Ford, Technology Program Manager with the Internet Society (ISOC), discusses IPv6 deployment, the role of government and the risks of inaction.

View more IPv6 testimonial videos, including discussions with Google, Claranet and the Swedish and German governments.

The Defense Department has released Version 4.0 of  the IPv6 Standard Profiles for IPv6 Capable Products as part of an update to the Defense Information Technology Standards Registry (DISR) Baseline Release, Version 09-2.0.

The IPv6 specification is an update of the original published in 2006, as well as Version 2.0 and 3.0 updates made in 2007 and 2008, respectively. The document was developed by the DISR IPv6 technical working group, chaired by Ralph Liguori, of the Fort Monmouth DISA Standards Engineering Branch.

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The New Zealand Government has impressed on the country’s business community the importance of speedy adoption of IPv6, but says it’s role towards achieving this will be confined to awareness raising and leading by example, not by regulation.

A New Zealand IPv6 Steering Group, convened by the Ministry of Economic Development, last week staged a ‘Hui’ (conference)  on IPv6 . Addressing the conference, acting minister for communications and information technology, Nathan Guy, said: “The rationale for these Hui is to convince you as key business decision-makers that there is a business case to be made for IPv6 adoption…We need to have IPv6 widely adopted if we are to be able to take full advantage of the mobile Internet and of the ‘Internet of things’ involving such things as intelligent houses and intelligent transport systems. A key driver for IPv6 is to make possible new services and business opportunities on a large scale, such as networked sensors for industrial or home automation services.”

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As the number of internet users keeps soaring, China’s IP address will be used up in two or three years, according to Wu Hequan, an expert from the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

China now has 380 million internet users. Every two of them use one IP address. People seldom feel inconvenienced right now, because not everyone surfs the net at the same time.

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IPv6 is coming, but what will it mean for hosting providers and data center operators? At HostingCon we spoke with John Curran, President and CEO of the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), who provides a helpful overview of the IPv6 transition and what it may mean for you.

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Internet pioneer Vint Cerf began his address at the IPv6 Hui today with a brief history of the internet, from the original Arpanet to todays multi-network, interoperable behemoth.

Cerf says there are 1.6 billion users of the internet, a figure that can’t keep on growing while using the current IPv4 addressing scheme. Asia and the developing world will be big consumers of addresses on the new scheme, IPv6, as internet use in developing nations grows.

Further new devices are being connected, including fridges, washing machines, and even wi-fi connected surfboards.

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